“Right here we’re once more, on one other day of mourning on this nation,” Kimmel, with out an viewers, mentioned to the digital camera on Wednesday night time. “As soon as once more, we grieve for the little girls and boys whose lives have been ended and whose households have been destroyed.”
On Wednesday, Kimmel spoke for roughly six minutes in regards to the capturing in Texas and gun management.
“Whereas our leaders on the suitable — the Individuals in Congress and at Fox Information and these different shops — warn us to not politicize this. They instantly criticize our President for even talking about doing one thing to cease it,” Kimmel mentioned. “As a result of they do not wish to talk about it. As a result of they know what they’ve carried out they usually know what they have not carried out, they usually know that it is indefensible. In order that they’d quite sweep this beneath the rug.”
Kimmel then famous that the majority Individuals assist widespread sense gun management, however that our “cowardly” elected leaders aren’t “listening to us.”
“They’re listening to the NRA,” he mentioned. “They’re listening to the individuals who write them checks, who preserve them in energy as a result of that is the way in which politics work. That is the concept we choose, that is what we inform ourselves, however it does not should be that manner. Not for this.”
Kimmel went on to say that this isn’t “a time for moments of silence.”
“This can be a time to be loud — and to remain loud — and never cease till we repair this,” he mentioned. “Some individuals say it is a psychological well being drawback. Others say it is a gun drawback. It’s each, and it may be each. So let’s work on each of these.”
The host famous that America confronted quite a few college shootings this 12 months, and it is solely Might.
“How does this make sense to anybody?” he mentioned. “These are our kids.”
Kimmel ended his monologue with a name to motion.
“So for those who care about this — and all of us do, does not matter what celebration we vote for, all of us care about this — we have to ensure that we do the whole lot we are able to… to ensure that except they do one thing drastic that permit’s ensure that not one in all any of those politicians ever holds workplace once more.”
