The Daily Show: 'Jon Stewart On America’s Gun Problem & Dystopic Present'

Source:The Daily Show back with Jon Stewart.

"Jon Stewart questions why America can't seem to address its very real gun problem and why conservatives are so against bans on assault weapons." 

From The Daily Show

I guess my first response to what Jon Stewart is arguing here, is about Jon Stewart himself. 

Jon Stewart is now 60 years old and yet he sounds like one of those New-Left, change the world hippies, from the late 1960s, who thought they could do and accomplish anything and believed that government could solve any problem known to man and perhaps even solve problems that no one has even heard of. Even though Jon Stewart is not even old enough to remember and understand that movement from back then, at least when it was going on. 

Stewart is arguing that government can do this, that, the other thing, and something else after that, and all our gun-related problems would be solved overnight, or overtime. Our form of government simply doesn't work that way. We're not that idealistic, that majoritarian, that partisan, at least in the sense that one political party can tend to pass major reforms all by themselves. 

We are supposed to get wiser, more experienced, more realistic, as we get older. Not believe that hatred and bigotry will simply disappear, if you are simply nice to everybody. Or that war will disappear, if you simply stop attacking people and you don't even defend yourself when you are under attack. As we get older, we tend to drink less alcohol, smoke less pot (well, most of us anyway) and are better able to keep both feet on Planet Earth. Or at least in America, which I know at times can seem like another planet all to itself.

I think what Stewart is really taking about here, is why won't the right-wing, (if not Far-Right) especially the rural and small town right-wing in America, the MAGA movement and to a certain extent Libertarians of all culture, regional, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, why won't these folks come to their senses about guns and the need for gun reform in America. 

If you think about it, Southern-Anglo-Saxon, rural Americans, have really been losing ever since the end of the Civil War. They no longer own or run America and are shrinking as a percentage of America. This is no longer even the 1950s, let alone the 1850s, when America was completely dominated by Americans of English and other Northern European stock. And they think they're losing America and see guns as they're last hope to try to keep what's left of the America that they grew up with, who their ancestors created. And they're not going down without a fight, And so far they're winning.  

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