You're listening to Comedy Central. Once again, America is reeling from mass shootings all the way from Buffalo, New York to your valley, Texas. People are asking how long can this keep going on? And here's the good news. In response, a major bill has been announced which would ban the new sales of handguns and allow the government to forcefully buy back assault rifles. In Canada, Yeah, this is completely real. Canada saw what happened here and they're shutting down guns there. Yeah.
At this point, America is basically a scared straight program that gets other countries on the right path. Yeah. It's like you have a smell someone so bad you know that you decide that you need to take a shower. That's what America is with gun laws. Now. To other countries,
they're like, we need to do something about guns. And while most Americans, liberals and conservatives are open to common sense restrictions on guns to keep Americans safe, there is still a small yet powerful group of gun fights who believed the problem with gun violence is not because of guns. No, it's because of everything else. Part of the problem is
how this generation that kids exists mostly online. They see actual violence as it's portrayed in the movies they watched, the music they listen to, in the games of video games they play. When I played War growing up, my friends the boys were allowed to be boys. I said to my friend Andy, Bang, you're dead. But the differences we knew it was fake. And Andy got up afterwards and we went and jumped in the fire hydrant or whoever had a pool. What? Trust of all, why do
I feel like Andy's fake? And second of all, what does this loser talking about kids know that games are fake? My man? No one is turning off Grant thefter like shit, I just ran over eighty pedestrians. Should I get a lawyer? Oh my god, I'm too young for jail. What am I gonna do? The argument that American music and video games causes gun violence totally falls apart when you realize the entire world listens to American music and plays American
video games. Yeah, but they have nowhere the same level of America's mass shootings. And don't get a twisted it's the same music. It's not like in Sweden they're Snoop Dogg is like rattat tat tat, and I never hesitate to put a hat on a cat. It's the same music while they're not getting the same results. And please, please please, gun gun fanatics, they don't. They don't just want to ban video games and music. No, no, no, it's going to further. They also want to replace those
things with what they say are some lost values. The only solution is Christ Jesus and being able to get some type of spirituality and prayer back into our schools. Right now, today, we live in a country where our millennials participation rate for churches is under thirty percent in a lot of locations. This is the lowest church participation we've ever had as a nation. Uh. And so it just shows you why you see so much chaos in our streets. Yeah, I mean that that could be one solution.
We need to bring Jesus into our schools. I mean, I don't know how Jesus would feel about that, Yeah, because if I was Jesus, I'll be like, yo, forget that. Look at what you guys did to me with nails. I'm not coming back when there's guns are fifteen ship. I learned my lesson. But again, if you think gun violence in America is high because people aren't going to church, then why don't they have the same gun violence in Europe because there nobody goes to church. It's like a
thing that's done. Now. If you go to church in Germany, you'll be the only one that even the preacher will be like, jeez, you'll scared the ship out of me. Nobody comes in here anymore. I even forgot there was a doll. Oh oh my god, that was crazy. Uh. The point is, gun lovers have been blaming the same causes over and over again for decades, although this time, to their credits, they've come up with a new thing
to blame. It's not the guns, it's the books. We stop teaching values in so many of our schools now we're now we're teaching wokeness, which we're in doctoring our child with things like CRT. Yeah, that's right. That's how evil critical race theory is. It's only been around for like a year and it's already caused three decades of school shootings. It's really tough. It goes back in time. It's so powerful. Man. I know you guys want to blame anything but guns, but it still has to make sense.
Can we agree on that? Right? You can't just blame stuff that you are already mad at these guys are like, maybe there wouldn't be so many, you know, violent shootings in schools if my wife would stop flirting with the landscaper. I mean, is it just me there making it sound like there used to be a lesson that was about the importance of not shooting people, but they never got to it because they spent too long in teaching slavery.
This doesn't make any sense. And if it's not religion, and if it's not video games, and it's not the music, what else could it be. Well, according to some gun lovers, maybe it was the school's vaults. One of the things that that everyone agreed is don't have all of these unlocked back doors. Have one door into and out of the school. I would like to see this a national push towards instead of parents buying their kids all these tools and toys and games, invest in the classroom to
make it safer. They have blankets that you can put up on the wall that are colorful and beautiful, but the ballistic blankets we need to install man traps, a series of interlocking doors at the school entrance that are triggered by a trip wire. Trip wire can be a gunshot, broken glass, or manual switch chics by a school employee, and it traps the shooter like a rat. Are these people hearing themselves? You think kids contel fantasy from reality.
But your suggestions like how about we make a school with steal doors that slam and windows that turn into a concrete or even better, the whole school becomes a transformer. Yeah, so that way when the school shooter comes, the whole school can run away from it. Not to mention, have you guys ever been in a school? Huh? You know, as the fire alarm gets pulled as a prank like once a week, you think the jocks are going to be constantly tossing nerds into the man trap? Do you
listen to yourselves? And even if those ideas don't work. Even if they don't, there's one solution that conservatives love to come back to time and time again, and over the weekend, it was proposed yet again by none other than Donald jo Head Trump. What we need now is a top to bottom security overhaul at schools all across our country, and above all, from this day forward, every school in America should have a police officer or an
armed resource officer or duty at all times. Yeah, yeah, you know, you always hear people saying this after a school shooting. What we need is armed police officers in the school. What's amazing about the debate this time is that they're still saying it's even though in the shooting that just happened there was an armed police officer and it didn't help. Classic Trump proposing a solution after it already failed. I mean, he would have been a lot
of fun in the lifeboats after the Titanic. Next time, we should just ram that iceberg really hard. What's the worst that could happen? What do you think, Jack? What do you think? And as we've all heard by now, there wasn't just an armed resource officer on the scene. There was a whole platoon of police officers who responded to the shooting but didn't do ship to stop it while it was still going on. And I'm willing to guess it's because they also scared of a gunman armed
with an a R fifteen. I feel like that's why we have to ask ourselves as a society, do we want to live in a world where anyone can legally buy weapons that the police are scared of huh and just by the way, Just by the way. For me, it's been amazing to see how some people love guns so much that they've gone from blue Lives Matter to screw these bitch ass cops if they're not here to get shocked, And what's the point of having them around the police? Oh, now you don't care about the cops
lives like, I don't know. Maybe it's just me. I would rather say, get rid of the air fifteen's and make these officers jobs a lot more safe. Maybe it's just me. It's long how people flip. You just flip whenever you feel like. It's so so crazy, how the cops they can't do anything right. They shoot people because they think they have a gun, and then now they're like they know it's a gun, They're like, well, we
can't shoot them if it's a wallet. Maybe, But I mean, so, look, I know that America is never going to do what Canada's doing. I don't even expect that. Right. There's a gun culture in this country that is fought too ingrained to ever truly get rid of it. And I also know that we're not going to stop gun violence altogether. I'm not naive, but I would hope. I would just hope that after a tragedy like this, Americans could agree that losing some of these is worth it to prevent
losing more of these. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. He represented Newtown when the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre occurred a decade ago, and following the devastating school shooting in Uvaldi, Texas, he begged his colleagues to act. Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority If your answer is that as this slaughter increases, as our kids run for
their lives, we do nothing. What are we doing? Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this? Joining us live now from Hartford, Connecticut, Please welcome. Send it, Christ Murphy to the day, Sandra Murphrey. It it must feel at some point like you you are, you know, going up against an immovable force. It must feel at some point like you're engaging in a conversation that seems to go around and around in circles. But it seems like in and around this time there is
some movement. There are some Republicans who have said, you know what, maybe there is something we should be doing, even if it is not the perfect solution. Let's let's jump straight into that and talk about what you've seen in terms of a bypasses and move to change what gun safety should be in America. Well, Trevor, thanks for having me on. And it does feel, UM, often like deja vu repeating itself. UM. Ten years I've been at this, UM,
the American public has made up their mind. There's nothing in this country that's as popular as changing the gun laws to make our kids safer. Of Americans support things like making sure that everybody has to go through a background check before they buy a gun. UM, but we run up against this brick wall, which is the power of the gun industry and the gun lobby. But you're right,
it does feel different this time. UM. I just got off the phone off a zoom call with UM about uh ten or twelve Republicans and Democrats that are trying to pass something that will save lives, not do everything,
but try to break this log jam. And I think it's because of the very unique cataclysmic nature of this last mass shooting, but also because over the last ten years, you know, we've built an anti gun violence movement that is powerful, that has just as many members and just as much money as the n R and the gun lobby has, and that has started to have an impact. So I don't know whether this is going to succeed.
I've been, you know, Charlie Brown kicking up football that gets pulled out from under me over and over again enough times to know that maybe this won't turn out differently. But UM, I owe it to the families in Texas, the families in my state, in Sandy Hook, to give it a try. What seems to be the hold up? What are some of the internal conversations that you're having, you know, without betraying anybody's trust, what are the sticking points?
Because if if so many Americans, if such a large percentage is in support of many of these common sense measures, why then do their representatives not seem able to put those things into effect? Well right now, this is a
problem only inside the Republican Party. Every single Democrat in the Senate would support things like expanded background checks, and and the reason that there's a problem in the Republican Party is that UM to win a Republican primary today, a lot of my colleagues think that you need the endorsement of the un lobby, not not just because of the money that comes from groups like the n r A, but because, um, you know, associating yourself with the gun
industry has become kind of a proxy for a broader set of conservative values. And so we've got to solve that problem for Republicans. We've got to find another way for them to demonstrate how conservative they are without having to do the bidding of a of an industry that
is supported by only ten percent of their constituents. But that's starting to change because now a lot of Republicans are starting to see if they vote for things, um, you know, like restrictions on UM assault weapons, they actually we rewarded by larger numbers of their constituents than ever before that support these things. So I think the political calculations of some of my colleagues are beginning to change,
but it's slow. You know, for decades they were told you can never ever beat the gun lobby in an election. That's not true anymore, but it takes a little while for that lesson to be learned. Let's talk about some of the concrete steps. Then you're looking to take. You know, every mess shooting in America is fall load very promptly by people saying this wouldn't be solved by that solution.
This solution wouldn't solve that problem, and it becomes a chicken and the egg scenario that never seems to end. What are some of the concrete measures that you can take now to change some of the gun laws in America to make the country safer at least, if not perfect. Yeah, and I think it's really important to remember that there's
a mass slaughter in this country every single day. I get it, there's good reason why this country pays more attention after a catastrophe like Evaldi, But there's a hundred and ten, d twenty people every single day who died from guns. And in fact, since you've ad the there's been eighteen mass shootings in the United States. Now it was four people, ten people, twelve people, not enough to get the headlines, but there's a crisis every single day.
What are we talking about? Red flag laws? These are the laws that allow you to take guns away temporarily from kids like this guy. And you've all day who is showing signs of doing something disastrous. We're talking about strengthening our background check system. We're not going to get all the way to universal background checks, but making sure
that more gun sales come with these background checks. UM, we're talking about UM money for community anti violence initiatives, trying to wrap services around at risk kids, especially in our cities, UM, where poverty also often leads to violence. UM. That could make a big impact as well. So it's not everything I want, but it would be the most significant set of gun reforms in really thirty years, and
we're closer than ever to getting it done. There are many UM, people who voted for Democrats who I think would sometimes look enviously at what Republicans are able to do despite despite you know, their setbacks. You know, we've seen what Mitch McConnell has been able to do with the Supreme Court. We've seen what Republicans have been able to do with abortion and restricting it around the country. UM,
do do you ever consider these options? Do you ever think to yourself, oh, man, we should also be looking at ways to use the tools and the mechanisms to present to us in America to get something done, or or is there a reason that you don't take that approach? Well, right now, we have a majority in the House the Senate that support expanding background checks to every gun sale, which would probably save the most lives. We were president,
will sign that bill. The problem is the rules of the Senate right now require you to get sixty votes, not fifty votes, in order to pass a bill like that. So for the American people, it's frustrating, right because they did their job. They put majorities in the House, the Senate, President of the White House to support where they support expanded protections when it comes to our nation's kids in the safety of our communities. But the rules of the
Senate stand in the way now. When Mitch McConnell wanted to get conservatives on the Supreme Court to outlaw abortion, he changed the rules of the Senate. But right now we are a few votes shy in the Democratic Caucus of changing the rules now that we're in charge. So yes, I don't think we should deliver really adopt the policies of Mitch McConnell. But I do think that when we have power, um, you know, when the voters have given us power, we should listen to them, um and do
what the majority of Americans want us to do. The ongoing Russian war with Ukraine, or, as the Russian media says, there is no war, but we're also winning it. Ever since Vladimir Putin decided to aggressively crash on his neighboring country's couch, Ukraine has been asking America for bigger and
better weapons to help them defend themselves. Now, usually when you ask America to send you weapons, they'll send them quicker than a restaurant that pre cooks the food in the morning and then just reheats it when you order it at nights. But because America and the rest of the world is terrified of starting World War three rightfully, so they've had to find ways to support Ukraine without being accused of attacking Russia. And so just today President
Biden announced this. This morning, President Biden has announced the US will stand another seven million dollars worth of weapons defense systems to the Ukrainian military. And among the newly provided weaponry is the multiple launched Rockets system, which is a highly capable long range system. This has been the subject of debate inside the Biden administration for weeks now whether or not to provide Ukraine with these more advanced,
longer range weapons systems. Concerns within the administration that Russia might view this as a provocative step, giving Ukraine the ability to strike within Russian territory. That's why the United States actually sought assurances and secure those assurances from Ukraine that they would not use these these rockets systems to strike Russian targets on Russian territory. Yeah, that's right. Biden made Ukraine promise that they will only use the rockets
in Ukrainian territory, they will not use them in Russia. Yeah, so he's basically giving them advanced rockets like a dad gives his teenager credit card. It's like, now, remember what I told you, this is only for gash groceries and the strip up. No tax books this time. I don't want to see that charge again. But this is major help. Though. Seven hundred million dollars, that's a ton of rockets. Well maybe it's like ten rockets. I never know with military equipment, Like, no,
you never know how much anything costs, you know. It's like when someone tells me they spent a hundred dollars at safora I have no idea if that's like one face cream or enough I gletter for a whole season of euphoria. I don't know how much it is. And look, I get that America is trying to find the balance between helping Ukraine and triggering its own war with Russia. But still this is putting Ukraine in a tough spot
because who knows how easy these missiles also use. You know, I don't want us to be in World War three just because some Ukrainian soldier entered the distance in kilometers when it was supposed to be in miles. You know what I'm saying. It's like all at one point six. But I will say this is good for Ukraine to defend themselves, and this is good for Russia to know they can'cious push other countries around. And you know who this is most exciting for American missiles. Yeah, what a
different experience this is going to be for them. I'm so excited. Oh, I'm so excited to be going overseas for the first time. And the best part is I've been invited. Wow, because my dad went to Iraq but he wasn't invited, and my grandfather he went to Vietnam, and boy did they not want him there. But look at me. I got invited to Ukraine. I'm a miss I'll go in to Ukraine. They invited me. I'm a good miss. Outlet my family la. My new one Man
showed Missile in Ukraine will be debuting next week. You guys can joining All right, let's move on. Disney released a new Star Wars show on their streaming platform, Disney Plus, which I've heard is good but not as good as Paramount Plus. Now, this Star Wars show is not the one about the Mandalorian, and it's not the one about Boba Fett. No, this one is about Obi Wan Kenobi, the Galaxy's most powerful hobo. And anyone can see where this is going. All right, just like show off the
show on Disney. You see what they're doing now, you get it. They plans to release a show about every character in Star Wars. It's genius, like a ton of money. Personally, I can't wait for the job of the hot sitcom. What I know, she broke your heart, job, but you've gotta start dating again. Dude, changing her up and putting it in a gold bikini doesn't count as a date. Silly.
That shows also premiere next week anyway. The Obi Wan Kenobi show is introducing a lot of new characters to the Star Wars franchise, but there is one character in particular who isn't getting the warmest welcome from the fans. This morning, Obi Wan couldn Nobi himself putting his force behind co star Moses Ingram where is after social media users launched racist attacks against her after her debut in the Jedi Knights new series. She brings so much to
the series. She brings so much to the franchise, and it just seconed me to my stomach to hear that this has been happening. We stand with Moses, We love Moses, and if you're sending her bullying messages, you're no Star Wars found in my mind. Moses, sharing she had received hundreds of racist messages following the series premiere. There's nothing
anybody can do to stop this hate. I think the thing that bothers me is that like sort of this feeling that I've had inside of myself, which no one has told me, but this feeling of like I just gotta shut up and take it, and I'm not built like that. Neither should you be. No one should have to just shut up and take racism. I agree with that, especially in stall Wars like, what is this? What is
this you racist? Installed? Like from the very beginning, this has been a series when no one thinks twice if Harrison Ford is best friends with a giant dog bear, or if a brother and sister want to smash, no one complains about that they're not getting death threats. I'm so tired of fans attacking black people in Star Wars when there are so many other races and species they could begging to bigts it against. Think about it, you could hate everyone going to rant about the creepy twilex,
you know, or the greedy jawas. There's so many more opportunities for racism than just black people. Mix it up, brought in your horizons, you know, Or is the Ewoks saying nevi? You know, I gotta think bigger and where it is. Get out there and you know, it's really great that even McGregor made a video supporting his co Stoff. But I think Star Wars needs to come back even harder at the racist right, make them suffer. You should give Princess Leiah and new black boyfriend. Yeah, that's right,
It's will be a dope. See, he's gonna come back in and be like a yo leiah, I got the plans for the death. Stop we don't tonight? All right, finally, let's talk about families. You know, one of the best parts about having a family is that you have people to blame in therapy for why you haven't succeeded in life. And and also you have people who will continue your
lineage deep into the plastic bad global warming apocalypse. Now, there are a few cultures who take family more seriously than Indian people, but as this next story shows, some of them might be taking it a little too seriously. Pilots take a quick peek at what's trending right now and unusual lawsuit in India. Parents are suing their only son for not giving them a grandchild. Sadiv and Sadaya
Pasad say that they've done their heard. They paid for their son's pilot training, a lavish wedding and even a honeymoon, and they say that they've waited six years for a grandchild and now they have filed a lawsuit saying that if their son and daughter in law don't give them a grandchild within a year, they owe the parents fifty million rupees, which is equivalent to six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Damn, damn, this is wild. They're suing
their son for not giving them a grandchild. Being parents is so weird. You spend the first eighteen years doing everything you can to stop your kids from having sex, and then as soon as they grow up, you turned into fret rose. You know, you gotta get laid, dude, and don't use a condomator. That ship's losers. Just do it. Do it now. As weird as it is, part of me sees where these parents are coming from, though, I mean, the only reason you have kids is so that you
can get grandchildren. Yeah, let's be honest. Nobody wants to be a parent, you know. It's just what you have to do to become a grandparents. The name is in it. It's grand it's better. And also grandkids and grandparents are on the same page. Of course, grandparents want to be grandparents. You know they were. They're the same thing. They both loved telling long and pointless stories. They have so many
of the same life experiences. And she's like, hey, Grandpa, I walked it into park and I saw a puppy and I PopEd it in my pants, like Wow, same here kid. Oh but look, if these parents really want grandkids, I don't know if the lawsuits it's really gonna help make that happen, especially with like a year you've given them a year you're in less every time. Now their son has sex, he's thinking about his parents. They did this, not me, and that lawsuit is definitely gonna help his
dirty talk. Can you imagine this poor Indian guys gonna be in his bedroom he's just like, do like that? Dude like that? You're like the way I'm trying to avoid paying six d seventy five dollars to my parents. This is a do million rupee pump r idea fifty million rupee? How would you do that? On May, a man armed with an Air fifteen style rifle shots up
a supermarket in Buffalo. Ten days later, another man with an Air fifteen style rifle shot up a school in Texas, and just yesterday a man with an Air fifteen style rifle shot up a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Now you might think the problem here is all the Air fifteen style rifles, but that just shows how little you know, because the real problem, according to some is all the doors have one door into and out of the school and have that one door armed police officers at that door.
If there should be one entrance in and one entrance out in all of our elementary and all of our middle schools are small enough to do that. It is about the single point of entry. If the school was on lockdown, could of the door have been locked where he couldn't have gotten in? Classroom? Doors should be hardened to make them lockable from the inside and close to intruders from the outside. That's right. America has a doors problem. In fact, some doors are totally unhinged, and yet politicians
are doing nothing. And since we know other countries don't have America's mass shooting problem, that clearly means that they know something about doors that we don't. So we asked Michael Costans to hit the streets and find out how other countries deal with their doors. In the days since you Valley, we've had eleven more mass should hold on ship another one. In the days since your Valley, we've had twelve more mass mold on news alert, thirty fourteen
mass students. But for some reason, mass shootings are the one part of American culture that isn't popular in other countries. How often are you having mass shootings in India? It's a weekly, it's a daily. Never never heard of? Wow? So what are they doing differently than us? Mass shootings in America? Everyone knows what's causing them. No one's really saying it. It's the elephant in the room. Let's say it together. America has too many gos. Wait what did
you say? The one thing America can do to prevent mass shootings is to limit each school to one or even better, zero doors. What that doesn't make sense? One do? How is that going to look? Like? How are you going to get into fire? Let's say we're in the school together with no doors and we're in the fire. That's why the kids should have guns. You shoot out a circle, I'll grab your hand, will be like I saw it an action movie once and then we then we go out or we shoot out the window. What
a guns have to do with it? I'm talking about like doors, you know, like the shooters come in through doors. I wasn't sure why these two weres for ignoring the real threat to our nation doors? How did the Polish government defeat the door lobby? They don't. They just let people have doors. Okay, and how many shootings have there been exactly what? Yeah, but these are little European doors, like little ones that like Hansel and Gretel walked through.
This isn't the old days with the old doors, the big wooden heavy doors that was real difficult to open. You know. These are new modern doors, like even a kid can open them. There's so many heartless manufacturers like Smith and West No like greaton barrels have to do with the doors. I realized doors are a hot button issue, but just keep your cool. I'm not saying anything crazy. I'm just saying you should have a license to buy a door. You should have a background check to buy
a door. If you have committed a violent crime in the last five years, maybe there's a waiting period for you to buy a door. So you say that buying a gun should be easier than any or do it when the guns have to do with it. Guns are what keep us safe. Foreigners like to say that Americans are obsessed with guns, yet when it comes to preventing mass shootings, all they wanted to talk about was guns. Now, who's obsessed? Do you think it would help to ban revolvers? Yeah?
You know, the doors that go around like, oh, I thought, sorry, you were thinking of guns. But what about your constitutional right to have a gun? Constitutional right? Whoa does it suck? Over there? We have a No, you can't buy a gun. Just like that. You have to have permission to have a gun permid a license. Yeah, a license. You can't go in the shop and have a gun. It's complicated. Let me tell you what's simple. One door. You keep coming back to these guns, right, People are coming through
the doors to do dangerous stuff. Wow, they have to have something dangerous with them, like a gun, and it does I don't know. You walk through the does and I can't see that. I'm sorry, I can't understand. I appreciate you apologizing and apology accepted. Maybe one day these foreigners will have some actual advice and how to stop mass shootings in America. But until then, our door is open. Before we go. Please consider donating to every town for
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