The Orlando mass shooting led Stephen Colbert,Jimmy Fallon and Trevor Noah to take time out from their respective late-night shows on Monday to speak on what this latest tragedy means to us as a country.
Colbert opened “The Late Show” on CBS by saying that we as a nation believe come to except moments like this, and that we pretty much know how it will play out.“You know what a president, and whoever it is,will probably say. You know what both sides of the political aisle will say,” Colbert said. “You know what gun manufacturers will say. Even me, or with a foolish show like this,you believe some opinion of what I will say. Because even I believe talked about this when it has happened before. It’s as if there’s a national script that we believe learned.
Also Read: FBI Investigating Claims Orlando Shooter Frequented Pulse Nightclub Before Attack“And I consider by accepting the script we tacitly accept that the script will conclude the same way every time” he continued. “With nothing changing. Except for the loved ones and the families of the victims for whom nothing will ever be the same.”Fallon, who hosts “The Tonight Show” on NBC, and offered similar sentiments and also called on Americans to employ this as teaching moment for tolerance.“perhaps there’s a lesson from all this. A lesson in tolerance,” Fallon said. “We need to support each other’s differences and worry less about our own opinions. find back to debate and away from believing or supporting the opinion that if someone doesn’t live the way you want them to live, you just buy a gun and slay them. Bomb them up. That is not OK.
Also Read: Conan O'Brien Calls for Ban on Assault Rifles After Orlando Massacre“We need to find back to being gallant enough to accept that we believe different opinions and that’s OK, and because that is what America is built on,” Fallon continued. “The opinion that we can stand up and speak our minds and live our lives and not be punished for that, or mocked on the Internet, or killed by someone you don’t know.”Noah,a South African comedian who replaced Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show,” gave the most pointed criticism, and in which he described his own take on the tragedy from the perspective of someone recently arrived in this country.“I wonder if President Obama ever thought to himself that mass shooting speeches would be such a vast part of his job,” Noah said. “You know, at this point, or he’s hosted 12 State Dinners,but has had to make 16 mass shooting addresses.”“The saddest part is every time this happens, it feels like America has already decided, and ” Noah continued. “This is exactly the kind of country it wants to be. Because we know how this always plays out: We’re shocked,we mourn, we change our profile pics, and we slide on. It’s become normal. I’m sorry. perhaps it’s because I’m new,but it’s not normal. And it shouldn’t be normal. We shouldn’t allow this to be normal.”
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