Actor-comedian and gun control proponent Michael Ian Black proposes a totally original and brilliant solution to gun violence

We can’t really stake out much common ground with actor and comedian Michael Ian Black, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still give him his due props.

So we salute you, Michael, for your consistency and dedication to the gun control cause.

Following yesterday’s deadly mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, you responded exactly as we’ve come to expect you to respond:

Repeal the Second Amendment.

— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) May 25, 2022

Wholly unoriginal and rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the Second Amendment and the purpose of the Second Amendment. Is Michael Ian Black on-brand or what?

blame it on constitutional failure

Blame it on the right

Blame conservatives

Blame politicians

Blame it on lack of mental health

But NEVER EVER blame it on the person who committed the crime.

No. Whatever you do, don’t acknowledge accountability. Absolutely not. https://t.co/GWztBslxao

— cagney (@Thang_1_) May 25, 2022

For so many gun control activists, “accountability” means never having to say you’re responsible, or searching desperately for someone to blame in order to avoid holding the actual culprit responsible. Republicans and conservatives and gun rights advocates did not give the shooter their blessings to open fire on and murder innocent people. But Michael Ian Black et al. want you to believe that they did.

And that’s sick.

Banning guns or 2nd Amendment does not ban immoral motives, anger, wrath, poor parenting, and murder behavior.

Stop trying to solve a 3D problem by providing a 1-Dimensional solution.

This is why we have an immoral USA.

You guys don’t even know what the problem is. https://t.co/o6lEFskkg0

— Eduard Brichuk (@EduardBrichuk) May 25, 2022

The problem is people like Michael Ian Black who use a deadly tragedy as an opportunity to brand law-abiding gun owners as would-be murderers. That solves absolutely nothing, but it does create new problems.

Yes, so that the law abiding citizens can be helpless and unarmed while the criminals continue being armed and dangerous. Good idea, comedian Michael Ian Black. https://t.co/vpdlYlNP6Q

— TG (@TinaTacos) May 25, 2022

Disarming America doesn’t make you a hero, it makes someone else a victim. https://t.co/7LU9cZSNPz

— Raquell Russell (@raquellrussell) May 25, 2022

Well put.

I like it when they're honest enough to say they're real problem is with the Constitution. https://t.co/ay2Eb7kn32

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) May 25, 2022

Can you get all Democrats to run on this?

Thanks! https://t.co/4Pd2eswcSY

— RBe (@RBPundit) May 25, 2022

Look how well it’s worked for Beto O’Rourke.

Repeal stupidity.

— Duke of Your Mom🎸🎵🎤 (@kylemusicatx) May 25, 2022

Stupidity is protected under the First Amendment. And as much as we hate stupidity, we love the First Amendment even more. So that can stick around, right along with the Second.