Samantha Bee Goes 'Full Frontal' on Orlando Shooting, Politicians' Mass Shooting Rhetoric
Samantha Bee used her "Full Frontal" platform to angrily denounce the Orlando nightclub shooting that left 49 people dead.
Unlike other talk show hosts like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert who preached the need for togetherness and understanding for one another at such a teneous time, Bee provided a different tone.
"After a massacre, the standard operating procedure is you stand on stage and deliver some well-meaning words about how we will get through this together, how love wins, how love conquers hate," she said. "That is great, that is beautiful, but you know what? F- it. I am too angry for that. Love does not win unless we start loving each other enough to start fixing our f-ing problems."
Bee Has Heard Enough of Politicians' Rhetoric
The outspoken host reserved her harshest criticisms for Florida politicians, lambasting them for their refusal to acknowledge the importance of gun control and its role in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
After Florida senator and onetime Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio declared such tragedy could have happened anywhere in the word, Bee strongly begged to differ by pointing out there hasn't been a mass shooting in Australia since the country passed comprehensive gun control laws two decades ago.
Later, Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott sidestepped the question of what could be done to prevent a similar tragedy, prompting Bee to opine, "If only shooting victims could dodge bullets as deftly as you dodged that question."
Bee Takes Stance Against Assault Weapons
In time, Bee reflected, "We can't constitutionally get rid of all guns, but can't we get semiautomatic assault rifles out of the hands of civilians? 'Sam Bee wants to take your guns away!' Yes -- the ones that mow down a roomful of people in seconds. Yes, I do want to take those guns away."
Bee turned to scripture to emphasize she is convinced talk alone is not enough in addressing the problem.
"Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead," she said in quoting from the Bible verse James 2:17.
She later added, "There is no shortage of troubled 20-somethings out there. And whether they're radicalized by ISIS, or homophobia, or white nationalism, or a dislike of movies, we are making it far too easy for their derangement to kill us."
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