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At his first taping after Friday’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, David Letterman spent a good portion of his opening remarks during Monday’s Late Night With David Letterman behind his desk, expressing his feelings about the killings — much like he did in his first show following 9/11. As a parent with a young son, the tragedy hit close to him: “Since 1994, there have been 70 — and these are just school shootings — there have been 70, 70 episodes of school shootings in the United States since 1994,” he said. “And you think about, ‘Good Lord, really? Should there be that many?’…I would have thought, hopefully, once a year would be too many wouldn’t it?… Are we supposed to be worried about dropping our kids off at school now?… I never worried about it before. I always thought, well, school is a good place where my son will be free of the idiot decisions made by his father.” The comedian also questioned the need for assault-type weapons in America and praised President Obama for his response to the tragedy. Here is a snipped from his six-minute monologue:
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The guy i a moron. He does not even know what an assault weapon is. Is a knife an assault weapon.
It’s only a matter of time before the law changes. Everyone has been moved–opinions change based on facts–the heinous facts of this massacre are going to change opinions and the law. I’d be more surprised if conservatives didn’t start backing more gun control measures.
What an ignorant comment. Its a shame your so challeneged
Sounds like you are very uneducated. A gun is a tool that gives you a very large mechanical advantage. With very little physical strength or force exerted by you, you can use the tool to exert great force at a high rate on your surroundings. Like any tool with such power, control is important, both for your safety and those around you. If one loses control of a knife, it is limited in it’s mechanical advantage and thus the effects are far less catastrophic. If one loses control of a car, which also has great mechanical advantage, the results are catostrphic, but generally limited in scope because cars, by nature, are not acting by design when they are out of control. A gun, however, is a tool specifically designed to kill and maim people. Therefore, when one loses control of it, it can be both catastrophic and wide in scope.
You should probably watch the video, he says the blame isn’t all on guns.
Maybe you should ask the people of Rwanda who were mutilated with machetes if they agree with your theory about a “mechanical advantage”.
You’re equating a knife to a machete? Take a physics class, dingbat.
*is the same thing,
Sorry, I left that part out.
Hyperbole
I watched this. On one hand, he said this was not an issue with guns or gun laws, and on the other, he kept talking about efforts to enact stricter gun laws. Dave likes to act the fool, but he is no fool. He has an agenda just like every other left winger.
Peace be with the victims of this senseless act of violence.
Everybody has an agenda.
“Left wingers,” “Right wingers” and everyone else, you included.
Yours right here is to badmouth “Left wingers.”
Mine right now is to suggest to you that you come up with one that’s slightly more ambitious.
Good for him. It is time to stop the madness.
+1
Jimmy Kimmel got choked up talking about the shootings in his monologue last night. I don’t see it on his official youtube channel (though everything else from the show seems to have been posted).
I haven’t watched Letterman in a long time, but I really applaud his willingness to take a stand on issues like these. Of course, semi-automatic weapons should be banned. They are not suited for hunting or sport, merely for military-style assault (on Friday they were used to assault defenseless 6-year-olds). As a famous American with a national platform , Dave’s comments carry weight. I don’t know a parent in America who didn’t look at his kids on Friday and say that could so easily have been my child. I’m sure this is what inspired him and I hope he’l continue to use his celebrity and platform to promote protecting our children.
Maybe YOU should start with action DAVE- don’t have on any film,actor, or director, or tv show with violence in it! Oh, you can’t do that because you need to be part of the money machin- right?
Great point, and one that will surely be ignored by Dave and his ilk. Also ignored will be the fact that they themselves are protected by guards who are armed to the teeth, and that ensuring that the general law-abiding public is unarmed is the fondest dream of those in our society who don’t happen to honor gun laws of any kind.
Wow, great point! Except for the fact that what you said has nothing to do with anything.
Guns kill people. Movies don’t. You suck.
Its more than just banning guns but a host of other issues!
I’m done listening to the other side on this. Stop justifying being able to purchase killing instruments used to slaughter first graders as they scream and die in pain. I am done with you.
Of course you are right.
And the loonies will soon have to be quiet, because the chorus of voices speaking for these children will be louder than their claim to a right to own a weapon that can kill 27 people within minutes.
And for those claiming the damage would’ve been the same with a knife, they are defending something defenseless, and not facing reality. Look up the recent attack in China. A madman with a knife attacked a school classroom full of children. No one died.
That is probably the most
Quite possibly the worst rebuttal I have ever heard. Com
Wikipedia has a nice summary page on school attacks (you can search for “school attacks” there).
Yes, yes, I know, Wikipedia isn’t a 100% accurate bastian of knowledge, but this is quite an extensive list of attacks they have compiled, going all the way back to the 1700s.
Just looking from 1960 to the present, and counting a school “attack” as any murder that occurs on school property where a student or staff member dies…
22 attacks by knife, 22 deaths
120 attacks by conventional handgun (not “semi-auto”) or
shotgun or other hunting gun, 191 deaths
5 attacks by what the press calls an “assault weapon” (meaning
something like an AR-15, AK-47), 32 deaths
It’s pretty clear that the so-called “assault weapons” are not in the majority here.
Another thing one can see by scanning over the chart on the Wiki page is that the frequency of attacks is definitely increasing since the mid-late 1980s.
One final very interesting point is that if one looks at the attacks and deaths in non-US schools, gun attacks are rarer, but there are still some very brutal attacks that cause many deaths (some in China, where stabbing killed 8 and 7 children in two attacks, respectively, and 67 in an attack in Kenya where a school building was set on fire)
We need remedies for violent behavior, for bullying, and for
detecting mental illness. Siezing on the “assault” weapon is missing the point. People latch onto that because those attacks are so singularly horrifying and because so many people can die in a single attack. But it’s like plane crashes. Each individual one causes a lot of deaths, so each individual one is horrifying. But car crashes are a lot more common and deadly.
You can’t legislate good behavior. You can’t take away a certain type of weapon and think you’ve solved the problem. Until we nurture and discipline our youth again in this country, we will keep cultivating an attitude of cruelty, isolation, entitlement, and violence. And people will keep dying. No “gun law” is going to fix this.