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.”
You seem to downplay significant factors.
If you could manage to swing such a thing and, through the course of the many years needed, get it through Congress - a laughable notion - and could withstand SCOTUS - more laughable yet - how much would it cost to actually implement such a buyback?
How many people do you believe would participate?
I think you significantly overestimated likelihood of any success from such a venture while you underestimate the political damage and lost political capital of such measures.
Oh? From what metrics and sources do you arrive at such a conclusion? This reeks of bullshit.
Could you elaborate on this? It makes no sense at all.
This, too, reeks of mere opinion and personal bias.
“2nd amendment stans”? How deeply unserious.
Probably seems to be doing a lot of lifting here.
The irony here is you’re correct about providing offramps but seem to entirely miss that the most significant factors aren’t related to the firearms themselves and certainly aren’t focused on those used in the minority of violence.