
“They’re listening to the people who write them checks, who keep them in power because that’s the way politics work,” he said.

The host lamented that the nation’s “cowardly” leaders are not listening to their constituents, who support “keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and children,” and are instead “listening to the NRA.” So they’d rather sweep this under the rug.” Because they know what they’ve done and they know what they haven’t done, and they know that it’s indefensible. They immediately criticize our President for even speaking about doing something to stop it,” Kimmel said “Because they don’t want to speak about it.

“While our leaders on the right - the Americans in Congress and at Fox News and these other outlets - warn us not to politicize this. Kimmel spoke of the shooting, which saw 18-year-old gunman, suspected to be Salvador Ramos, kill 19 children and two adults, for roughly six minutes on Wednesday. The host became immediately emotional at the start of his Wednesday show, where he addressed the shooting for the first time as his Tuesday episode had been taped prior to the tragedy at Robb Elementary School.

“Once again, we grieve for the little boys and girls whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed.” “Here we are again, on another day of mourning in this country,” said Kimmel, who did not welcome a live audience Wednesday night. Jimmy Kimmel broke down while addressing the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, questioning how tragedies like this “make sense to anyone.”
