“I think we can all agree that if you don’t have one friend to hold the phone for you, your lone-wolf ass doesn’t get a gun”. It seems the gun-lobbying group is much more reticent about allowing Americans to get their hands on an Eddie Eagle costume than on a Desert Eagle.
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Samantha Bee, the best thing in late night television today, did what she does best last night, aiming her laser wit and ire at the mass shooting in Orlando.
Watching our late-night hosts deliver somber eulogies in the wake of mass shootings has become a familiar part of our national grieving ritual.
Luckily, Samantha Bee is just as pissed off about the 49 senseless LGBT deaths at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida as we are, and she’s using her platform on Full Frontal to talk some sense into our leaders!
But it was these words, about the futility of phrases like “love wins”, that truly hit home.
But you know what? “Love does not win, unless we love each other enough to fix our fucking problem… Mass shootings are so normalized that we’re taking turns?”.
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Bee spent the next seven minutes pillorying the stupidity of the empty motions America goes through after our ever-increasingly frequent mass shootings, particularly those of politicians like Rick Scott who ask for prayers instead of pursuing actual gun control policy – like banning the “high capacity penis substitute” AR-15 rifle – that might prevent such tragedies from occurring again. Marco Rubio for saying that the shooting “could have happened anywhere in the world” and that “unfortunately, today was Orlando’s turn”, displaying obvious disgust. The ones that mow down a roomful of people in seconds, yes, I do want to take those guns away! “These high-capacity penis substitutes are a shitty choice for hunting and home protection but ideal for portable mayhem”, Bee says.
