On Wednesday evening, a rifle-toting gunman murdered 18 people and wounded at least 13 more in Lewiston, Maine, when he opened fire at two separate locations—a bowling alley, followed by a bar. A manhunt is still underway for 40-year-old suspect Robert Card, a trained firearms instructor with the U.S. Army Reserve who, just this summer, spent two weeks in a mental hospital after reporting that he was hearing voices and threatening to shoot up a military base.

While the other late-night talk show hosts stuck to poking fun at new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert took his rebuke of the Louisiana congressman to a whole other level.

“Now, we know the arguments,” Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have to tragedies such as this. “Some people are going to say this is a mental health issue. Others are going to say it’s a gun issue. But there’s no reason it can’t be both.”

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    I’m not advocating for cars, but I’m pretty sure cars are significantly more used than guns, require a license to operate, and are not built to kill people (not entirely sure about SUVs but still).

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      Guns aren’t built to kill people. Even the military has guns whose primary purpose isn’t killing people.

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        …This may be the single stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen someone post on the internet.

        Literally the PRIMARY purpose of firearms from their inception was to kill. I don’t even understand how you can have made it this far through life and be this unintelligent or disingenuous.

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        1 year ago

        In that case, every gun should be the subject of an urgent product recall to address a serious malfunction that results in them killing multiple people every day.

        You lie about as well as a toddler does. Just stick to the talking points the gun lobby gives you.