You know how it’s the job of late-night funnymen now to act as America’s moral conscience? Following the church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Stephen Colbert offered an analogy that we think was supposed to spur action on gun control.
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
Hmm … if your village had a tiger eating people every day, what would you do?
https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/928400486927134721
https://twitter.com/LShrug/status/928181560033001472
I'd probably get a gun and shoot the tiger https://t.co/JZjhoIXqXL
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) November 8, 2017
You’d shoot it. https://t.co/c7CNPpfsXN
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 8, 2017
Too easy.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) November 8, 2017
Maybe you’d chainsaw bayonet it.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 8, 2017
We knew there was a reason that chainsaw bayonet mount was there.
https://twitter.com/ohnonotreality/status/928402262984134656
I would shoot the tiger then cut it up with my new chainsaw attachment… then I would eat a tiger steak while I dreamed of my new tiger coat.
— Frank The Tank (@frankthetank918) November 8, 2017
Uh you’d hunt the tiger with guns, not ban tigers or the guns to shoot it with
— Steven (@MaVASteve) 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
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? (@Autumn__Fox) November 8, 2017
I'd go buy a gun and shoot the tiger.
— CWest631 (@Cwest631) 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
I would be having tiger for dinner after shooting it with my legal gun. ??? https://t.co/b8cKlSWxZ8
— ? Lovely Day ? (@00LovelyDay00) November 8, 2017
This is the worst metaphor ever.
— Mike Hunt ?????? (@MikeWithamouth1) November 8, 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
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
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
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Stephen Colbert doesn't seem to think there's been talk about gun control https://t.co/qFaOxa0nWu
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 4, 2017
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