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.”

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I dunno man, if golfing killed 100,000 people a year don’t you think someone would investigate? Why should this sport be different?

    As it is, the most dangerous sport in America (mountain climbing) kills 30 people a year.

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      1 year ago

      you could argue golfing probably kills way more people you would expect with all that fertilizer and pesticide runoff