Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. One of the strangest things
Speaker 1: about conversations involving guns in America is how quickly America
Speaker 1: goes from being the most hopeful and almost impossible chasing
Speaker 1: nation to to to a nation that just believes that
Speaker 1: nothing is possible. All of a sudden, you know, everything
Speaker 1: else America believes is possible. We're like, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: to the moon, We're gonna go to Mars. We're gonna
Speaker 1: cure cancer. It doesn't mean we can't do we can
Speaker 1: do it. We're gonna do it. We're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna Then when it comes to guns, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, so many people are like, it's impossible to
Speaker 1: stop it. You just you can't. There's so many What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? And
Speaker 1: what really frustrates me is how people try and make
Speaker 1: it a game of whack a mole when it comes
Speaker 1: to solving problems. You know, you propose any type of
Speaker 1: solution and they go, well, that wouldn't have solved this one,
Speaker 1: This wouldn't have stopped that, And you're like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's that's not how solutions work, right. There is no
Speaker 1: problem that is going to be solved by one solution.
Speaker 1: A lot of the time, big problems require a multitude
Speaker 1: of solutions, and what you do is you try and
Speaker 1: fix it incrementally, step by step. Every day you think
Speaker 1: of a new thing. Look at cars, for instance, causes
Speaker 1: a simple idea. Right when they started off, it was
Speaker 1: like a bucket with wooden wheels. You just crashed and
Speaker 1: your diet. That was it. And then over time people said, well,
Speaker 1: why don't we improve it? Why don't we say it
Speaker 1: has to have brakes where we never thought of brakes.
Speaker 1: Let's add that, let's add brakes, and let's add this,
Speaker 1: and let's add seat doesn't We've gotten to the point
Speaker 1: where cars drive themselves now, and still we say we've
Speaker 1: got the right laws. We still say, let's make sure
Speaker 1: that a self driving car adheres to certain standards. Let's
Speaker 1: make sure that it hasn't stopped. And yet somehow with
Speaker 1: guns it just stopped. You know, it's such it's such
Speaker 1: a strange argument for me. Oh but that wouldn't have
Speaker 1: fixed it. Yeah, but if you see a loophole, why
Speaker 1: not fix it before, at least to a problem that
Speaker 1: it could have stopped. Do you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And I always say the same thing. Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: slippery slow Which gun do you ban? You know, like,
Speaker 1: which guns do you want to ban? It's like, we'll
Speaker 1: just start with the ones that people seem to be
Speaker 1: using over and over again to go into schools to
Speaker 1: kill a bunch of children at one time. Oh but
Speaker 1: that won't what if they come with them? Yeah, then
Speaker 1: we'll deal with that. You know, it's a lot harder
Speaker 1: to commit these mass shootings when you don't have certain
Speaker 1: types of weapons. I just I really don't understand it.
Speaker 1: You know, people like, oh I wouldn't fix it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing fixes everything. But you've gotta start. You've gotta start somewhere.
Speaker 1: They lets us like the gym. The gym argument, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. And when you're trying to get in
Speaker 1: shape because because why don't you go out and I'm
Speaker 1: just not gonna change anything. Push ups don't help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: push ups on their own don't help. And you know,
Speaker 1: walking on its own its own doesn't. Not, drinking more
Speaker 1: water on its own doesn't. Not. You combine these things
Speaker 1: step by step, day by day, and then you wake
Speaker 1: up one day and you're like, well, wow, I look
Speaker 1: a little bit better than I did before. I feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better than I did before. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen overnight. It's incremental. But it's really interesting that
Speaker 1: it's the one area where so many people just want
Speaker 1: to throw their hands up. You know, the same people,
Speaker 1: by the way, where when they first were told that
Speaker 1: this was an undocumented immigrant, they were quick. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were all of a sudden they were like, oh, we
Speaker 1: gotta do we gotta shut down the borders we've got
Speaker 1: this is why we need stricter. And then they were
Speaker 1: like what, Oh, no, it was it's not what we look,
Speaker 1: this is not the time to politicize things. We don't
Speaker 1: know what could have been done, and we there's nothing
Speaker 1: that could have been done, and we've got to realize
Speaker 1: that bad people are gonna do bad things. Oh but
Speaker 1: when you thought it was somebody who came across the
Speaker 1: border illegally, then you you said there was something you
Speaker 1: could do. Oh yeah, well that that And the saddest
Speaker 1: thing is it's a small group of people, most Americans
Speaker 1: on the same page. It's like a small group of
Speaker 1: people whove managed to shift the Overton window on the
Speaker 1: conversation around guns. Most gun owners are logical about this,
Speaker 1: like gun like real gun owners good the range and
Speaker 1: they shoot that. You should see how they respect weapons.
Speaker 1: You know. They don't even be the ones who go like, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we get rid of some of these guns and
Speaker 1: maybe change some of those laws and whatever. But that
Speaker 1: there's the small little group, this lobby that manages to
Speaker 1: shift the entire conversation in the country. He can't do it,
Speaker 1: and he's like, Okay, I think that's the end. Okay,
Speaker 1: and we'll keep happening until somebody makes a change. But
Speaker 1: the one thing I say is you have to keep
Speaker 1: having hope. You keep having hope, you keep fighting, you
Speaker 1: keep pushing, you don't stop. You know, Like someone said
Speaker 1: to me recently about this conversation, He's like, why do
Speaker 1: we bother? Like? Why do we keep having this conversation?
Speaker 1: I was like, hey man, I don't know. Why did
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Jr. Bother? You know? Why did Nelson
Speaker 1: Mandela bother? Why did Matt Mcgandhi bother? Why had Harriet
Speaker 1: Tubman bother? What? You know, It's like there, you have
Speaker 1: to keep bothering. That's what hope is. Just wake up
Speaker 1: and you try again, and you try again, and you
Speaker 1: try again, and you try again, and then you know.
Speaker 1: One day you succeed or you die of old age.
Speaker 1: That's life. WA's The Daily Show weeknights and eleven Central.
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