Posted • July 18, 2024: To help him make sense of night two of the Republican National Convention, CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Sen.
Elizabeth Warren to a live Tuesday edition of The Late Show, where the duo agreed that true national unity in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump means Republicans dropping their policy preferences and endorsing Democratic priorities, mainly gun control.
Colbert declared, “Senator, the RNC theme tonight was Make America Safe Once Again, and one of the things that makes America at any moment not a safe place is the open, ready, ubiquitous availability of guns, including the AR-15-style gun that was used against the former president on Saturday that the Democrats would like to eliminate, they would like those not available for purchase.” He then wondered, “Were you surprised there was no discussion of gun control of any kind?” (…)