If you don't like seeing grown men tear up, Jimmy Kimmel's monologue Thursday night probably isn't for you. Kimmel showed parts of President Trump's speech about Wednesday's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and agreed that no student or teacher should be worried about being killed in school, and no parent should have to fear that. "Here's what you do to fix that," he told Trump: "Tell your buddies in Congress, tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio — all the 'family men' who care so much about their communities — that what we need are laws, real laws, that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids."
"Tell these congressmen and lobbyists who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain, force these allegedly Christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the NRA year after year after year, to do something, now. Not later, now," Kimmel said. "And don't you dare let anyone say it's too soon to be talking about it, because you said it after Vegas, you said it after Sandy Hook, you say it after every one of these eight, now, fatal school shootings we had in this country this year. Children are being murdered." Trump has done worse than nothing, Kimmel said, pointing to Trump's actions on guns and mental illness.
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