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John Oliver Returns With Rant About Gun Control Policies
February 19, 2018 | Posted by
Last Week Tonight returned last night on HBO, with host John Oliver demanding that something be done about gun control following the Parkland school shooting. The tragedy left seventeen dead and others injured.
He said: “Thoughts and prayers? Fuck your thoughts and prayers. It’s a mental health problem. Yeah, but it’s also a gun problem. And then someone says, ‘Now’s not the time to talk about gun control’ and everyone moves on until it inevitably happens again. When the ‘now’s not the time’ argument came out, the kids from that school said, ’You know what? Yes, it fucking is.”