Rubio tried his best to explain his positions,
but you could tell that he was totally
out of sync with the rest of the room.
On the issue that you've raised about the background checks,
relate directly to what you said about the assault weapons ban.
It's not the loopholes; it's the problem
that once you start looking at how easy it is
to get around it, you would literally have to ban
every semi-automatic rifle that's sold in America.
(cheering and applause)
Fair enough. Fair enough.
Okay. Okay. Uh...
Okay. I see I just, uh, made your point.
Okay. Okay.
That was such an epic fail.
Like, Rubio said the solution like it was the problem.
Yeah? You know what this reminded me of?
It reminded me of the reaction a lot of men had
to the #MeToo movement. You know, when people were like,
"If we carry on like this we're gonna live in a world
"where men can't even hit on their female staff, huh?
"Oh, that-that is what we want?
"Okay. Okay, fair enough.
I misunderstood. I-I misunderstood. Okay."
(cheering, applause)
Now... now, usually, town halls are just an opportunity
for politicians to spin the narrative
and get their own talking points out, but these kids--
these kids held Rubio's feet to the fire so hard
that they got him to do something
that most conservatives hate:
evolve.
I traditionally have not supported re...
looking at magazine clip size.
And after this, and some of the details I've learned about it,
I'm reconsidering that position, and I'll tell you why.
(applause)
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie-- I'm-I'm surprised that
these heckling teenagers got Rubio to change his mind.
Maybe bullying isn't that bad after all.
In fact, in fact, maybe that's how you get
the rest of America's lawmakers to do anything.
Move the floor of Congress
to the middle of a coliseum, right? Yeah, and then,
best believe they'll start getting things done.
And then every time they try and filibuster,
we'd just be like, "Release the lions!"
And McConnell will be like,
"I don't want to be eaten by a lion again. Come on, guys.
"Let's just figure this out. Come on. Ba...
Hey, slow down, buddy, I'm all skin. Ba..."
Now, President Trump didn't come the town hall in Florida,
but he did host his own listening session
in the Mar-a-Lago of the north: the White House.
And, for once, the president came fully prepared,
even bringing a note
to tell him what emotions to feel.
See there, number five: "I hear you."
And you know what?
I feel bad for Donald Trump.
Because you know we would have never seen that note
if he just had bigger hands. We would have...
We wouldn't have seen those words.
(cheering, applause)
But seriously, though... seriously...
seriously, the guy... the guy's a stable genius
but he can't remember to say "I hear you?"
It's a listening session.
Like, I feel like Trump just brought the same notes
he has been using every time he talks to Melania.
Just like, "Donald, are you having an affair?"
"First off, let me just say, I hear you."
Now, yesterday, people mocked Trump for needing crib notes
to sound like a human being, but to be honest,
I prefer Trump using notes.
Because when doesn't use them, like today,
he starts saying shit like this.
I think a concealed permit for having teachers
and letting people know that there are people in the building
with gun, you won't have, in my opinion, you won't have
these shootings, 'cause these people are cowards.
They're not gonna walk into a school
if 20% of the teachers have guns.
It may be ten percent or maybe 40%.
And what I'd recommend doing is the people that do carry,
we give them a bonus. We give them a little bit of a bonus.
(audience groans)
Man. Am...
America... America really is a special place.
For years... for years, teachers have been asking for more pay,
and politicians have said they don't have enough money,
but now the president's like, "Uh, if you're willing
to cap some fools, we're gonna make it rain, yeah."
And I... I like how President Trump
calls it a bonus, too.
Can you imagine teachers after a shooting being like,
"Oh, my God, I-I can't believe I had to shoot someone."
It's like, "Yes, it's the hardest thing
"you'll ever have to do. And that's why
"you've earned this Jamba Juice gift card.
There you go. Get yourself something nice."
Like, there are so many practical issues with this plan
that I don't even know where to begin. But, honestly,
it's not even worth going through them all.
Because once you decide that Ms. Flanderson
needs to be locked and loaded during English class,
you're not trying to solve the problem anymore,
you're admitting defeat.
And, look, I get... I get that people are worried
about school shootings. And I get that some people
think that if teachers have guns
they can keep their students safe.
But you do realize there are organizations
that are training teachers to use guns,
and it might not be the perfect solution that you think.
-Drop your gun! -REPORTER: This is the point of view
of an elementary school principal.
(gunshots)
Firing at a mock gunman during a simulated school shooting.
During this training I saw one person
shoot what would have been a student in a scenario.
When you see that, does it make you second-guess
this choice to have guns in schools?
No.
It's an accident, we might take one,
but we might have saved 30, 40 other kids.
(audience groans)
Good lord.
America just went from "No child left behind"
to "Sometimes little Timmy gotta get got."
Like, I'm just saying if I was sending my kids to school,
I wouldn't want the principal to have the same rules as Omar.