You're listening to Comedy Central. One of the strangest things about conversations involving guns in America is how quickly America goes from being the most hopeful and almost impossible chasing nation to to to a nation that just believes that nothing is possible. All of a sudden, you know, everything else America believes is possible. We're like, we're gonna go to the moon, We're gonna go to Mars. We're gonna cure cancer. It doesn't mean we can't do we can
do it. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it. We're gonna Then when it comes to guns, all of a sudden, so many people are like, it's impossible to stop it. You just you can't. There's so many What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? And what really frustrates me is how people try and make it a game of whack a mole when it comes
to solving problems. You know, you propose any type of solution and they go, well, that wouldn't have solved this one, This wouldn't have stopped that, And you're like, yeah, but that's that's not how solutions work, right. There is no problem that is going to be solved by one solution. A lot of the time, big problems require a multitude of solutions, and what you do is you try and fix it incrementally, step by step. Every day you think of a new thing. Look at cars, for instance, causes
a simple idea. Right when they started off, it was like a bucket with wooden wheels. You just crashed and your diet. That was it. And then over time people said, well, why don't we improve it? Why don't we say it has to have brakes where we never thought of brakes. Let's add that, let's add brakes, and let's add this, and let's add seat doesn't We've gotten to the point where cars drive themselves now, and still we say we've got the right laws. We still say, let's make sure
that a self driving car adheres to certain standards. Let's make sure that it hasn't stopped. And yet somehow with guns it just stopped. You know, it's such it's such a strange argument for me. Oh but that wouldn't have fixed it. Yeah, but if you see a loophole, why not fix it before, at least to a problem that it could have stopped. Do you know what I mean, And I always say the same thing. Oh, it's a slippery slow Which gun do you ban? You know, like,
which guns do you want to ban? It's like, we'll just start with the ones that people seem to be using over and over again to go into schools to kill a bunch of children at one time. Oh but that won't what if they come with them? Yeah, then we'll deal with that. You know, it's a lot harder to commit these mass shootings when you don't have certain types of weapons. I just I really don't understand it. You know, people like, oh I wouldn't fix it. Yeah,
nothing fixes everything. But you've gotta start. You've gotta start somewhere. They lets us like the gym. The gym argument, that's what it is. And when you're trying to get in shape because because why don't you go out and I'm just not gonna change anything. Push ups don't help. Yeah, push ups on their own don't help. And you know, walking on its own its own doesn't. Not, drinking more
water on its own doesn't. Not. You combine these things step by step, day by day, and then you wake up one day and you're like, well, wow, I look a little bit better than I did before. I feel a little bit better than I did before. It's not gonna happen overnight. It's incremental. But it's really interesting that it's the one area where so many people just want to throw their hands up. You know, the same people, by the way, where when they first were told that
this was an undocumented immigrant, they were quick. Yeah, they were all of a sudden they were like, oh, we gotta do we gotta shut down the borders we've got this is why we need stricter. And then they were like what, Oh, no, it was it's not what we look, this is not the time to politicize things. We don't know what could have been done, and we there's nothing that could have been done, and we've got to realize
that bad people are gonna do bad things. Oh but when you thought it was somebody who came across the border illegally, then you you said there was something you could do. Oh yeah, well that that And the saddest thing is it's a small group of people, most Americans on the same page. It's like a small group of people whove managed to shift the Overton window on the conversation around guns. Most gun owners are logical about this, like gun like real gun owners good the range and
they shoot that. You should see how they respect weapons. You know. They don't even be the ones who go like, yeah, maybe we get rid of some of these guns and maybe change some of those laws and whatever. But that there's the small little group, this lobby that manages to shift the entire conversation in the country. He can't do it, and he's like, Okay, I think that's the end. Okay, and we'll keep happening until somebody makes a change. But the one thing I say is you have to keep
having hope. You keep having hope, you keep fighting, you keep pushing, you don't stop. You know, Like someone said to me recently about this conversation, He's like, why do we bother? Like? Why do we keep having this conversation? I was like, hey man, I don't know. Why did Martin Luther King Jr. Bother? You know? Why did Nelson Mandela bother? Why did Matt Mcgandhi bother? Why had Harriet Tubman bother? What? You know, It's like there, you have
to keep bothering. That's what hope is. Just wake up and you try again, and you try again, and you try again, and you try again, and then you know. One day you succeed or you die of old age. That's life. WA's The Daily Show weeknights and eleven Central. Armed Tubby so in stream fool episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast