Jimmy Kimmel gets tearful during emotional plea for stricter gun laws after Vegas shooting

Stephen Paddock killed 59 people on Sunday in the deadliest mass shooting in US history 
Jennifer Ruby3 October 2017
The Weekender

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Jimmy Kimmel made an emotional plea for the government to tighten gun laws as he teared up while talking about the Las Vegas shootings.

The chat show host struggled to fight back the tears as he condemned the lack of gun control in the US after 59 people were killed by a gun man who opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday night.

During his live monologue, the Las Vegas-born star urged Donald Trump and Congress to finally act out against gun violence.

“This morning, we have children without parents and fathers without sons, mothers without daughters,” he said.

“We lost two police officers. We lost a nurse from Tennessee. A special-ed teacher from a local school here in Manhattan Beach. It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to throw up or give up.”

Kimmel continued: “It’s too much to even process — all these devastated families who now have to live with this pain forever because one person with a violent and insane voice in his head managed to stockpile a collection of high-powered rifles and use them to shoot people.”

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The host went on to condemn the government for only acting when “someone with a bead” attacks the US, rather than an American-born citizen.

“Because when someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls, we take every possible precaution to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” he said.

“But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there’s nothing we can do about that.”

Kimmel then proceeded to show the faces of all of the senators who voted against gun restrictions the day after the shootings in Orlando last year.

He said: “President Trump is visiting Las Vegas on Wednesday. He spoke this morning, he said he was praying for those who lost their lives.

“You know, in February, he also signed a bill that made it easier for people with severe mental illness to buy guns legally.”

At least 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured when Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest festival from a 32nd floor hotel room across the road.

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