Jimmy Kimmel delivers emotional plea for gun-safety laws: ‘How does this make sense to anyone?’

He stated it is not the time for a second of silence however slightly a time to be loud following Tuesday’s mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas.

The mass taking pictures, now the second-deadliest faculty taking pictures in U.S. historical past, left 19 third- and fourth-grade youngsters and two academics lifeless.

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He was visibly shaken and voiced frustration with politicians who’re blocking gun security laws that the overwhelming majority of Individuals need.

A preferred proposal amongst Republican lawmakers is to get extra armed guards in faculties and different weak public locations. Kimmel disagreed.

“In case your answer to youngsters being massacred is armed guards, you have not been listening to what is going on on,” Kimmel stated. “There was an armed guard in Buffalo, there was an armed guard in Parkland, there was an armed guard at Uvaldi. That they had armed guards, there have been cops armed on the scene and these murders nonetheless occur.”

He then cited different gun management measures around the globe that helped quell any additional faculty or mass shootings.

“Gun-control legal guidelines work, by the best way,” Kimmel stated. “We all know this. 26 years in the past, Scotland had a college taking pictures that killed 16 children and a trainer and the federal government responded by enacting gun-control laws and there hasn’t been a college taking pictures in Scotland since then. In 1996 — in Australia — a mass taking pictures killed 35 folks. They handed gun laws. They have not had one since. That is the one nation the place this retains occurring.”

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He identified that firearms are the No. 1 explanation for loss of life for American youngsters and teenagers.

“Some folks see it is a psychological well being downside, others say it is a gun downside. It’s each and it may be each, so let’s work on each of these.”

He stated that there have been 27 faculty shootings thus far this yr thus far in United States, a staggering quantity.

“How does this make sense to anybody?” Kimmel stated whereas combating again tears. “These are our kids and our representatives are presupposed to characterize us. We wish limits who can stroll round with an AR-15… it should not be a teen who works in a quick meals restaurant and if we will not agree on that? Neglect it.

“This isn’t their fault anymore, that is now our fault as a result of we get indignant, we demand motion, we do not get it. They wait it out, we return to the lives that we should always rightfully be capable of return to, however who would not overlook it? The dad and mom of the youngsters at Sandy Hook and Marjory Stoneman Douglas highschool and now Robb Elementary faculty,” he stated.

You possibly can see Kimmel’s full monologue right here.