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On Wednesday evening, a rifle-toting gunman murdered 18 people and wounded at
least 13 more in Lewiston, Maine, when he opened fire at two separate
locations—a bowling alley, followed by a bar. A manhunt is still underway for
40-year-old suspect Robert Card, a trained firearms instructor with the U.S.
Army Reserve who, just this summer, spent two weeks in a mental hospital after
reporting that he was hearing voices and threatening to shoot up a military
base. While the other late-night talk show hosts stuck to poking fun at new
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert took his
rebuke of the Louisiana congressman to a whole other level. “Now, we know the
arguments,” Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have
to tragedies such as this. “Some people are going to say this is a mental health
issue. Others are going to say it’s a gun issue. But there’s no reason it can’t
be both.”