Endorse This! Colbert Rips Cruz For This Stupid Solution To School Shootings

Endorse This! Colbert Rips Cruz For This Stupid Solution To School Shootings

Late Show Host Stephen Colbert Rips Into Ted Cruz On Guns

As we learn more and more about the horrible details surrounding the deadly school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, we get to see all the feckless Republicans do the old song and dance on guns. When they're not gassing up the dump trucks of thoughts and prayers to avoid any accountability for doing the NRA's bidding, they're suggesting absolutely laughable solutions to school shootings.

Late Show host Stephen Colbert dismantled Senator Ted Cruz’s latest moronic suggestion that locked doors or single entry and exit points would stop mass shootings

.“So he just wants sensible door control,” noted Colbert. “Now look, increasing security, hardening schools, could be a good idea, but what about all the other places where shootings happen – like movie theaters, like churches or grocery stores or everywhere else in America.”

Indeed, Colbert's point about the downright frightening rise of mass shootings states the absolute obvious: Stop simping for the terror suppoters in the NRA and get something done about gun safety. Colbert also mocked Congress for sneaking off on recess without doing anything about guns.

Watch the entire segment below:

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