Colbert Embarrasses Himself With Ignorance On Gun History

By Tom Knighton

Stephen Colbert is supposedly a comedian. I say supposedly because, well, I never found him particularly funny. That said, a whole lot of people do and they certainly have a right to do so. I don’t have to understand why they find the man funny, after all. That’s part of what living in a free country is all about.

However, I do take issue with Colbert completely ignoring history to try and score a political point, all while hiding under the facade of “comedy.”

Colbert also took on one of the GOP’s favorite talking points against gun control, as summarized by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

“We’ve had guns in this country for hundreds of years,” Mulvaney said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We haven’t had this until recently and we need to figure out why.”

Colbert was ready with a common-sense response.

“It’s because those guns we had back then, hundreds of years ago, were way slower and way less powerful,” he said. “It’s why during the Revolutionary War the British soldiers volunteered to wear bright red coats and stand in a straight line.”

Colbert then quipped about how inefficient those guns were in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms