Has He Gone Too Far? John Stewart On Carleston Shooting: We Still Wont Do Jackshit’

I loved his commentary. I don't think he said anything specifically about gun laws during the entire commentary except that he didn't want "to get into the political argument
about guns and things..."

I thought it was really more of a commentary about the American people as a whole. We care about terrorist attacks, but crap like this still happens all the time and we really don't care or dedicate much towards it.

Many people are sugarcoating this, but he put it very bluntly. This was a terrorist attack. It was domestic terrorism. A white supremacist attacking a historic black church in South Carolina should not happen 50 years after the civil rights movement, but it still does. Heck, I live in Alabama - I still see people driving around with KKK bumper stickers. How the hell do we not pursue putting every member of hate groups like that behind bars with the same vigor we try to find all Al Quada, ISIS or other Muslim extremists and send them to prison or GITMO?

By SC gun laws, he was not allowed to own a gun. His prior drug charges are enough to not be allowed to purchase. That means that someone else bought the gun and right now they are looking at the father as a straw purchaser, which is a federal felony punishable with up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine

The person I feel went too far was the NRA's statement about the shooting, blaming the pastor for not having a firearm on him while giving a sermon. That's what went too far, blaming innocent people for their own murder.

Sane People don't do things like this.

You can't predict what unreasonable and irrational People will do. Trying to force law abiding Citizens to conform to a standard that won't work on unreasonable & irrational People is not only foolhardy, it's asking for more trouble.

The adage that criminal don't follow gun laws is absolutely true. Disarming society is not going to make anyone safer. It is going to give the illusion that "we are trying to do something."

The TSA hasn't made us safer. The NSA hasn't made us safer. Saying we can't protest in DC hasn't made us safer. Creating the FISC hasn't made us safer. What's next Quartering Troops in everyone's home? That's the only Protection that doesn't seem to be under $^&$%$%^&%$c attack.

I understand the emotion Jon Stewart has. I agree with the emotion, but he is on the wrong side of this issue. It wasn't guns that killed these People. It was a madman. You cannot account for the actions of a madman. If it wasn't a gun, it would have been a pressure cooker, or a plane crashing into a building, or a car loaded with fertilizer. Guns kill an insignificant number of People compared to Heart Disease and Motor Vehicles. It doesn't even break top 10 on the CDC list. Let's start focusing on the big ticket items. Especially when the message is coming from someone who makes their living enjoying the full Protections of one Amendment.

Well since John Stewart is a performer first and a satirical commentator second he probably has not gone too far to remove him from the public's eye.
In a sense I am glad that he expressed sadness for the massacre in the Charleston Church.
That being said I generally do not concur with his expressed views and disagree with him about gun control in particular.

The issue continues to be, how do we keep guns out of the hands of either mentally ill people, or those with criminal records? I own four guns. I am all for sensible laws restricting the sales of guns to lunatics and criminals.

I doubt that he was doing it for ratings...he's in his last season.

A very impassioned speech which touches on many topics, some I agree with some, eh.

I would like to hear from the black community in one voice, in unison what they feel will bring an end to racism in America. What is their definition of the solution, what do they want to have in order to say they feel equal? We have a black president, isn't that a good enough example to say, "look everyone in America regardless of race has the same opportunity to make it to the top"? What more is needed to gain racial equality? Being white I assume that disqualifies me from being in a position to understand the real issue of racism.

Our armed forces have no jurisdiction in our country for policing so yes, in some respects it is "easier" to address a foreign threat more immediately than a domestic threat.

How many gun related massacres - Columbine, Aurora, Sandy Hook, Charleston - have come and gone and neither federal nor local governments can pass meaningful legislation surrounding gun control because the argument from the 2A side predominately seems to be , "You're only punishing the legal gun owners and the criminals will still get the guns when they want." Here is yet another case of just that - a person who should never have had one and couldn't get one legally ended up with one. IMHO, 2A as it stands will never be amended to allow for the gun control that is needed because of the overwhelming support for it the way it is. That being said, legally, what else can be done? Pretty much nothing.

The bit about driving down roads named for civil war generals, seriously? Longstreet Ave, Lee Blvd, Hood Road, Jackson Highway, Stuart Drive, Armistead Way, Pickett Lane, Ewell Street - these names are offensive? Fort Bragg, NC, Camp, A.P. Hill VA both located in the south and named after Confederate generals, should we change those too? Have blacks refused to serve at these posts because of the names?

The Civil War was just as much about state's rights than ending slavery, probably a bit more so. To say the southern generals were fighting solely to oppress & rape black people is neither historically accurate nor correct. It's a tainted statement at best.

If you perpetuate 150 year old emotions and aggressions and attitudes as "this is still the way it is in America" then things will never change. 150+ years ago is just that, if we can't get past the Civil War, if people still expect reparations to be made and rely on the NAACP and Affirmative Action to "level the playing field" then we will never get beyond where we are. If every time a white person does something to a black person we automatically assume racial overtones things will never change. If we keep saying isolated incidents are all linked by conspiracy under this cloud of racism, things will never change.

I want it to end as much as everyone else but the rhetoric, media overkill and passion plays don't end every time an incident like this happens. and IMHO perpetuate the problem.

Stewart is a typical anti-gun liberal who accepts the premise that all that's necessary is to make guns hard (and very expensive) to get. He fails to understand that guns are part of the life-blood of the American People. We settled a nation and defended it from its enemies with guns. There are many Americans who's grandfathers and grandmothers were alive during the late 19th century and accepted guns as a normal tool of everyday living. Owning guns is a sacred right for all Americans enshrined in The Constitution. When will the left figure out that it's not guns but all their policies over the last hundred years that have coddled criminals and prevented measures to interdict the mentally ill before the commit gun crimes. The answer is never.

http://ewross.com/americans_that_own_use_and_respect_guns.htm

Here's a thought and Charleston is my hometown and were I retried to. Why don't we let the people of Charleston grieve because while I may be white, I went to school across the street from this church and I grew up a mile from it too. These were nothing short of extremely wonderful God fearing people. The people of Charleston are a special community that is unlike any other. Notice the riots? The Looting? the Burning buildings? And you never will!!! The Black and the White people of Charleston are proud of our race relations and we are ONE community. As far as the NRA, Obama, Jon Stewart, Hillary, Al Sharpton, the Confederate flag haters and all the people who make a living with a political agenda, SHUT THE HELL UP! Nobody is listening anyway as you can see! At least nobody in Charleston!