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Roy Wood Jr. Goes Abroad To Ask Why Americans Love Guns

By Andrew Sanford | TV | January 25, 2023 |

By Andrew Sanford | TV | January 25, 2023 |


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There is a lot to love about the United States Of America. Major League Baseball. Driving on the right side of the road. Character actor extraordinaire M. Emmet Walsh. It is just hard to focus on those awesome things when certain Americans insist on arming themselves to the teeth. America has a gun problem and everybody else in the world knows it, as Roy Wood Jr. just discovered.

The Daily Show correspondent traveled across the pond to ask people from England and Norway and South Africa how they viewed America’s gun problem. When asked why Americans love guns, one woman put it best by saying that we are “crazy.” Just go straight to the source. No need to beat around the bush.

The level of pity in this segment is remarkable. The people Roy talks to don’t just write him off or give him joke answers. They talk to him with compassion and disappointment. The world looks down on us for our gun issue, as it should. Children are dying, yet stubbornness and ignorance keep us from doing anything about it.

Props to Roy Wood jr. for putting himself in this position because people could have been a lot meaner. This could have felt a lot more like a lecture than a chat, as it should. Hey, look, my American defensiveness is showing its face right on cue.