Jimmy Kimmel and Trevor Noah offer thoughts, not jokes, about the weekend's mass shootings
It was "another weekend of sadness and outrage in the United States, we had two more mass shootings," in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday's Kimmel Live. "And again, our leaders, in one party in particular, are offering not much more than their thoughts and their prayers. And you know, I was thinking and praying about it, and both parties say one thing: That we're too divided. ... Well, here's something we can agree on: Too many people are being shot with high-powered weapons."
"And we agree on this, too: They did a poll last year, and 97 percent of gun owners — these are gun owners — support universal background checks," Kimmel said. "But the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell — this evil, soulless old creep — won't even allow the Senate to vote on a bipartisan bill to require background checks for gun purchases at gun shows."
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