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 locationsā€”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.

ā€œNow, we know the arguments,ā€ Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have to tragedies such as this. ā€œSome people are going to say this is a mental health issue. Others are going to say itā€™s a gun issue. But thereā€™s no reason it canā€™t be both.ā€

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    1 year ago

    Most mass shooters are actually right wing nutjobs.

    Take this one, he was part of a right-wing militia.

    While he did have a metal issue, he also had access to far too many guns, and then continued access after threatening to go on a mass shooting. All because he was part of a ā€œmilitiaā€.