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Whereas it needs to be “blindingly apparent to anybody with clear eyes and a conscience” that america has extra gun deaths than every other nation as a result of we've got far more weapons, the “craven ghouls who refuse to even acknowledge America’s gun disaster” produce other concepts about the way to cease mass shootings, Seth Meyers defined Thursday evening.
The Late Night time host was particularly speaking about Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who within the similar Fox Information look the evening earlier than each accused Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke of “empty political posturing” and urged eliminating doorways as the easiest way to cease faculty shootings.
“I’m sorry, you don’t need gun management, however you need door management?!” an incredulous Meyers requested, earlier than including that fireplace marshals might need some issues about Cruz’s one-door coverage. “As a result of famously nothing unhealthy has even occurred when there’s just one approach in and a technique out of a crowded constructing!”
As for Cruz’s criticism of O’Rourke, Meyers mentioned, “I’m sorry, Ted Cruz is accusing another person of pulling a stunt? This is identical man who learn Inexperienced Eggs and Ham on the Senate flooring, launched a marketing campaign advert the place he used a machine gun to fry bacon, and posted a video of himself lurking within the bushes on the Rio Grande like he was auditioning for a job on Duck Dynasty.”
Taking up the persona of a BBC nature present narrator, the host intoned, “A uncommon sighting of the bearded coward indigenous to those elements till he makes his flight south for the winter”—a reference to Cruz fleeing for the 4 Seasons in Cancun whereas his state was dealing with its worst power disaster in years.
And at last, there was the “beautiful trade” through which Cruz fled a British interviewer who merely wished a proof for why mass faculty shootings solely occur in America.
“Man, take a look at him run away,” Meyers mentioned after enjoying the prolonged clip. “I wager he was grateful that place had a couple of door.”
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