Jimmy Kimmel last night - Time for Gun Control

[malaise]

http://www.businessinsider.com/jimmy-kimmel-cries-emotional-monologue-gun-control-las-vegas-2017-10
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Jimmy Kimmel teared up during an emotional monologue on Monday in which he called for stricter gun laws in the wake of the shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, that left at least 59 dead and over 500 wounded.

"It's too much to even process all these devastated families who will have to live with this pain forever because one person with a violent and insane voice in his head managed to stockpile a collection of high-powered rifles, and used them to shoot people."

But the host spent the majority of the segment on the topic of gun control, noting a number of recent federal gun-control bills that have failed.

"When someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls, we take every possible precaution to make sure it never happens again," Kimmel said. "But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there's nothing we can do about that."

Kimmel singled out prominent Republican leaders President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying they won't pass gun-control measures because the National Rife Association "has their balls in a money clip."

He sarcastically thanked them for their thoughts and prayers, saying they "should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country," and put up a graphic of Republican senators who voted against closing the gun-show loophole following a mass shooting in 2012 that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead.
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Well said - lots more at link

[cwydro]

1. I've come to really admire him.

Poor guy though - seems he never gets to be a comedian anymore.

What a world.

[malaise]

2. Well this is no time to laugh

He's doing great.

[cwydro]

3. True dat.

This is a tragic time.

And we have a buffoon at the helm.

[bdamomma]

4. exactly

Congress is bought and paid for by the NRA. We know how smug they can all be?? I would love to see those who are taking donations from NRA to go down. Hypocrites all of them.

[aikoaiko]

5. That's nice, but that 2012 AWB would not have prevented the LV shooter from legally acquiring...

...AR15 rifles that could be legally modified with slide-bump stocks or trigger cranks as some people are saying he used.