Late-night hosts discuss lack of political will following the shooting and Trump’s whiny interview on Sean Hannity’s show
Stephen Colbert
“I’m sure you know what everybody is talking about is horrible, and familiar, and horrible because it is so familiar,” said Stephen Colbert on Tuesday’s Late Show, the day after a shooter opened fire inside a“It’s impossible not to read this news or see any of the footage without being heartbroken for all those people and for our beautiful country,” he continued. “Because this is the 130th mass shooting of 2023, and 2023 is only 87 days old.
“And the obvious solution here is one President Biden has proposed” – an assault weapons ban, in place from 1994 to 2004, during which time the risk of dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower than it is today.“It might be hard, but it’s not complicated. That’s just math. It’s the same reason these days we have fewer strangulations with a landline.”
“It’s a simple, common sense idea that Republicans are desperate to talk about anything else,” he added, pointing to a Fox News anchor claimed that a common denominator in school shootings was not an AR-15, which has been involved in every one, but a side door. “Yes, clearly we need common sense door reform,” Colbert deadpanned. “Folks, we can’t stop at side doors. Did you know that most people enter a building at the front door? So we clearly need to get rid of those, too.
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