"Here we are again, on another day of mourning in this country," Jimmy Kimmel said on May 25. "Once again, we grieve for the little boys and girls whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed while our leaders on the right — the Americans in Congress and at Fox News and these other outlets — warn us not to politicize this. They immediately criticize our president for even speaking about doing something to stop it, because they don't want to speak about it. Because they know what they've done, and they know what they haven't done, and they know that it's indefensible. So they'd rather sweep this under the rug."
"They're listening to the NRA," he continued. "They're listening to the people who write them checks, who keep them in power, because that's the way politics work. That's the idea we settle on, that's what we tell ourselves — but it doesn't have to be that way. Not for this. This is a time to be loud — and to stay loud — and not stop until we fix this. Some people say this is a mental-health problem. Others say it's a gun problem. It is both, and it can be both. So let's work on both of those."
"So if you care about this — and we all do, doesn't matter what party we vote for, we all care about this — we need to make sure that we do everything we can . . . to make sure that unless they do something drastic, that let's make sure that not one of any of these politicians ever holds office again."
