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.”

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    These aren’t laws they’re supposed to be guaranteed rights

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      How’d that eighteenth amendment work out for you? Just so you don’t have to go search for it, it’s the one that made production, distribution, etc. of alcohol illegal. AKA prohibition.

      The 21st amendment eventually repealed it.

      So these things are not set in stone as much as everybody would like to believe. They can and occasionally are amended, repealed, etc.

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        1 year ago

        Thats not part of the bill of rights

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          1 year ago

          The bill of rights are still just amendments. There’s nothing inherently different about their status as amendments.

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      Rights become out of date and change over time as well, with that brain dead logic we should still have the right to own slaves.

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      The Bill of Rights is a set of laws, that’s what laws are.

      In any case, who wrote the Bill of Rights in the Constitution? Men did. So, rules and laws were made by men for people. They were not ordained by God. They were written by people, and they can be changed.