Comedians used to be funny.
Now they’re cheap shills for the Democratic Party and their big-government schemes.
After the horrific shooting in Las Vegas, left-wing comedians didn’t wait until the bodies were cold to unleash gun-control screeds, and Jimmy Kimmel took the cake.
Kimmel has somehow become the oracle of the left, bestowing wisdom and right-think to the masses.
He mentioned the harrowing medical ordeal with his newborn son, who needed surgery to repair a congenital heart defect, to advocate for ObamaCare.
Except ObamaCare had nothing to do with the medical treatment his child received; Kimmel’s son got treatment at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, which is a prestigious charity hospital that uses private funds to treat kids of all backgrounds, regardless of whether or not the parents have insurance or are able to pay out-of-pocket.
Now Kimmel has taken up the issue of gun-control and wasted no time framing Republicans as soulless creatures.
From Breitbart:
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel opened his program Monday with a ten-minute political rant about Sunday’s mass murder in Las Vegas, saying “now is the time for political debate” about gun control.
Dismissing as inadequate calls for prayers for the victims by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Jimmy Kimmel Live host said: “they should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country.”
Kimmel railed against lawmakers who “won’t do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money clip,” insisting that their “thoughts and your prayers are insufficient.”
The comic responded to those saying there was nothing that could have been done to stop Sunday’s attack. “I disagree with that intensely,” Kimmel said, “because of course there’s something we can do about it.”
“There are a lot of things we could do about it. But we don’t,” he continued, “which is interesting because 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 doesn’t happen again. But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there’s nothing we can do about that.”
The ABC funnyman’s comments came after suspected gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas Sunday, firing down hundreds of rounds of bullets on thousands of revelers from the 32nd floor window of his hotel room at the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The gruesome attack killed at least 59 people and left more than 500 others. Paddock reportedly killed himself before being apprehended by law enforcement officials.
Kimmel, who lived in Las Vegas for many years, was equally dismissive of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s plea that “this is not the time for political debate.” He said, “I don’t know, we have 59 innocent people dead. It wasn’t their time either, so I think now is the time for political debate.”
The late-night host chastised lawmakers who have advocated for Second Amendment rights using examples and characterizations of legislation popular among the anti-gun left, many of such examples having no clear relevance to Sunday’s tragedy. Of President Trump, for example, Kimmel said, “In February he also signed a bill that made it easier for people with severe mental illness to buy guns legally.”
Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel opened his program Monday with a ten-minute political rant about Sunday’s mass murder in Las Vegas, saying “now is the time for political debate” about gun control.
Dismissing as inadequate calls for prayers for the victims by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Jimmy Kimmel Live host said: “they should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country.”
Kimmel railed against lawmakers who “won’t do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money clip,” insisting that their “thoughts and your prayers are insufficient.”
The NRA comment is particularly ridiculous considering the organization has contributed $3.6 million to current members of Congress since 1998, but labor unions have donated over $700 million in the same time period.
The Democratic Party is entirely beholden to the Teachers’ Union and viceversa. The Union’s job is to serve the teacher, not the student. That’s why it’s almost impossible to hold bad teachers accountable while the good teachers are shackled by the system.
The article continued:
The comic responded to those saying there was nothing that could have been done to stop Sunday’s attack. “I disagree with that intensely,” Kimmel said, “because of course there’s something we can do about it.”
“There are a lot of things we could do about it. But we don’t,” he continued, “which is interesting because 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 doesn’t happen again. But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there’s nothing we can do about that.”
The ABC funnyman’s comments came after suspected gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas Sunday, firing down hundreds of rounds of bullets on thousands of revelers from the 32nd floor window of his hotel room at the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The gruesome attack killed at least 59 people and left more than 500 others. Paddock reportedly killed himself before being apprehended by law enforcement officials.
Kimmel, who lived in Las Vegas for many years, was equally dismissive of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s plea that “this is not the time for political debate.” He said, “I don’t know, we have 59 innocent people dead. It wasn’t their time either, so I think now is the time for political debate.”
The late-night host chastised lawmakers who have advocated for Second Amendment rights using examples and characterizations of legislation popular among the anti-gun left, many of such examples having no clear relevance to Sunday’s tragedy. Of President Trump, for example, Kimmel said, “In February he also signed a bill that made it easier for people with severe mental illness to buy guns legally.”
This talking point about February’s repeal of a ban on certain social security recipients has nothing to do with “severe mental illness.” Those “adjudicated as a mental defective or has … committed to any mental institution” are prohibited from owning firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act, unaffected by the legislation Trump signed. Kimmel made no claim that Las Vegas shooting suspect Stephen Paddock has ever been diagnosed with a mental illness. Breitbart News is aware of no such diagnosis.
Kimmel went on to talk, at length, about the supposed “gun show loophole,” a common anti-gun lobby characterization of the fact that law-abiding Americans are allowed, in the vast majority of states, to sell and purchase guns among one another without using a gun dealer. The gun show loophole has little to do with gun shows but has remained a consistent feature of anti-gun rhetoric, even in states where private sales of firearms are completely illegal.
“There are loopholes in the law that let people avoid background checks if they buy privately from another party, if they buy a gun online, or at a gun show,” Kimmel claims, showing the pictures of the U.S. Senators that voted against a soundly defeated 2016 bill that would have banned most interpersonal transfers of guns in the United States and saying, “These are the 56 senators that didn’t want to anything about that.”
Kimmel then cited polls showing wide bipartisan support for “background checks” and “restricting gun ownership for the mentally ill” — two policies that have been the law of the land for decades, as evidence the 56 senators who voted against Chuck Schumer’s gun bill were out of touch. “But not these gang,” Kimmel said, “they voted against both of those things.”
There is currently no indication Paddock purchased any of the weapons he used at a gun show. It is unclear how he obtained all of his weapons, including at least one reported to be a heavily-regulated fully automatic rifle. Nor is there any indication Paddock used or attempted to use a suppressor. This did not prevent Kimmel from, as failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had, railing against “silencers” in reference to recent efforts to loosen National Firearms Act requirements on civilian ownership of suppressors.
“I want this to be a comedy show, I hate talking about stuff like this,” Kimmel pleaded to his audience, becoming visibly upset. “… What I’m talking about isn’t gun control, it’s about common sense.”
As is the case with mildly informed Democrats like Kimmel, they’re all heart and no logic. There’s no doubt he cares about the victims in his hometown, but his policy prescriptions, which are the talking points of the left, are not the answer.
The left claims to want “sensible” gun control, but they don’t. They want a total ban as if that somehow makes violent crime go away.
Prohibition is the facile answer, but not necessarily the correct one. It hasn’t solved the drug problem and undoubtedly won’t solve the gun problem.
The overwhelming majority of gun homicides are committed by an unlicensed user with an unregistered gun.
Gun bans won’t make criminals lay down their arms, just like drug bans didn’t.
If anything, there should be more responsible gun owners to deter criminals.
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