Late night TV hosts continue to think they have been crowned America’s moral conscience.
But when so-called late night funnyman Stephen Colbert tried to politicize the tragic church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, he was promptly roasted.
“You wanna do something, but nothing gets done. No one does anything,” he complained on Monday night’s Late Show while talking about the Texas shooting that took the lives over two dozen church-goers.
“Nothing gets done to control the guns that kill 10,000 people a year around America—not just in these mass killings,” Colbert lectured.
“Five thousand years ago if your village had a tiger coming into it every day and was eating people, you wouldn’t do nothing. You would move the village, you would build a fence, or you would kill the tiger,” he continued.. “You wouldn’t say, well, I guess, y’know, someone’s going to get eaten every day because the price of liberty is: tigers.”
Colbert’s rant backfired in an epic way as the analogy seemed to reinforce the complete opposite of the liberal nonsense he was spouting.
Colbert on guns: “If your village had a tiger eating people every day, you wouldn’t do nothing.” https://t.co/Wg0KQQcflz pic.twitter.com/iz5ARYiiTR
— Slate (@Slate) November 8, 2017
I’d shoot it.
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) November 8, 2017
Twitter users swiftly set him straight.
I’d probably get a gun and shoot the tiger https://t.co/JZjhoIXqXL
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) November 8, 2017
I’d shoot it. Duh.
— LetsShrug (@LShrug) November 8, 2017
Too easy.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) November 8, 2017
You’d shoot it. https://t.co/c7CNPpfsXN
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 8, 2017
Maybe you’d chainsaw bayonet it.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 8, 2017
You’d use guns to shoot the freaking tiger jackass
Then maybe use the chainsaw attachment to chop it up???? https://t.co/7tm0Iuqwwh— Reality (@ohnonotreality) November 8, 2017
You know what you use to kill a wild tiger? A hunter. You know what a hunter uses? A gun. A gun would be used to save all those people.???
— Gunpowder & Vanilla (@AutumnFoxNews) November 8, 2017
Uh you’d hunt the tiger with guns, not ban tigers or the guns to shoot it with
— Steven (@ArlingtonSteve) November 8, 2017
Exactly, that’s why law-abiding citizens wanna be armed, to protect themselves from the tigers in society. https://t.co/oLuNNNI47w
— Chris Antenucci (@chrisantenucci) November 8, 2017
This is the worst metaphor ever.
— Mike Hunt (@MikeWithamouth1) November 8, 2017
Colbert is funnier by accident than he is on purpose. I’m guessing he’s missing the joke, here. https://t.co/372odIrigh
— Michael Brown (@mdavidbrown) November 8, 2017
This analogy is perfect because their proposed solution to stop a man eating tiger is to kill an elephant & ban chimps instead. https://t.co/kxgQjx7Re6
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) November 9, 2017
This seems like possibly the worst metaphor here, since the way most communities deal w/predatory animal attacks is shooting them. https://t.co/k3v6AwCJFs
— Rachel Alexander (@rachelwalexande) November 8, 2017
Uhhh, I’d use one of my guns to shoot the freakin tiger….lol https://t.co/xSHXPrMHSR
— Sarah The Roma? (@ToothpasteWords) November 8, 2017
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