Parkland Shooting Survivors School Congress on Gun Violence: The Daily Show 

Hold up... If all the students are taught self defense, doesn't that just give the shooter another advantage? Because they've been taught self defense as well.

I get my news from comedians and my comedy from Fox News.

Someone please explain to me WHY any American citizen needs an “assault weapon?”

Teacher:Did you do your homework? Sudent:No Teacher: *slowly puts hand in the desk* Student:WAIT I HAVE IT!

They don’t even teach us taxes in school, when do we have time for self defense classes

We can't teach kids to read on grade levels. We can't afford new books. We can't train and retain good teachers. We can't pay new teachers a decent salary. Where is all this new money and training coming from. I'm a school counselor. My job in my school district requires that if there is an intruder with a gun, I hunt for kids who may be in the halls and get them to safety. You can't afford to send my kids on field trips, but you plan to arm me with a gun then train me to shoot. Bad idea.

"we'll lose a few kids with braces but tats the price of freedom" 😅😅

That magnet idea was actually more credible than anything Fox came up with

You know, when the adults who are expected to be the role models in situations like these don’t do jack shit, and it’s the KIDS who have to take matters into their own hands, there MIGHT just be a _teeny_ problem with the state of things in this country.

This is my school and we survived this.Trevor I LOVE YOU. i go to this school i survived this shooting and i want you to know YOU are preaching WE ARE ON UR SIDE this is MY school and WE WILL NOT STOP FIGHTING!! Emma, David, Cameron, Alfonso if you guys are reading this. Im proud of you guys I love the work you’re doing. im Proud to say Ive been ur friend.

“Get rid of the schools. Problem solved.” r/wowthanksimcured

Trevor your plan to get rid of schools is actually smart and i'm pretty sure every student will support u

Our school is having a walk out tomorrow on gun violence and we won't stand for this any longer

So... we can spend money to give teacher's guns and training, but not enough on education... or a damn pencil.

it is almost 2 years ago and still nothing has changed

3:45 To quote American Dad “There’s only one thing you need to know about Karate. Guns beat karate, every time.”

Think of it this way folks. These kids will be our next generation. Kids that have grown up with school shootings happening around them at a far too consistent rate. If stronger gun laws won't come now, they will come later. The old must eventually make way for the new.

These kids give me hope for the future.

*deep breath* School shootings should not be the norm. You shouldn't have to train and arm every student for _when_ a shooter enters the building. You should stop the shooter before he can get his gun or even be able to enter a school with it. For every person against stricter gun laws, I'm sorry protecting your gun is more important than protecting lives. Edit:Listen honeybuns, can this not be about "liberals" or "conservatives" for once? Everyone's children need protecting. To understand my opinion, look at it like this: A guy with a knife is attacking another guy. Do take his knife away, or give the other guy a knife? I'm open to other opinions, so instead of arguing, use your brain to think of ideas.

An angry Trevor is a deadly Trevor...he will rip you to shreds😨😨😨

So everyone in the school learns hand combat, so wouldn't the shooter know that too? Lmfao

I live in Indonesia, there has never been a mass shooting here, simply because none of us really cares about owning guns.

Fox News be like “Let’s give everyone gun, that will solve gun violence”

I love the crazy look on Trevor’s face during his asides! 🤣

The sentence “shoot the right kid" really stuck out to me.

Seriously Trevor deserves way more airtime than 30 mins

*"Those meddling kids"* that Scooby Doo reference I see you

What if the teacher snaps one day!!! who will protect the children from the teacher then?? Arm the Janitors too.

"Why bother making laws? It's not gonna work anyways." Why hire lawmakers? They're getting paid to do shit.

Give teachers guns....only in USA LOL

This aged well. Now everyone is being homeschooled “distance-learning”

Nobody: Fox news: we are turning this school into a fortress!

My boss spews everything she hears on fox. Its sickening. When I said that England and Australia had outlawed guns altogether, and change didn't happen overnight, but its working... she stomped off and refused to speak to me for the rest of the day. The gun freaks get mad at common sense.

Call me crazy but going to school where teachers and administrators have guns to fire back against a nactive shooter sounds like walking into a war zone instead of a place of learning

The sad thing about this is I’ve already seen a “Homeschooling is the solution” comment.

how do we solve gun violence? y’all: MORE GUNS !!!

This is very silly. In Florida the moat needs gun eating alligators, not sharks.

A bizarre thing I’ve noticed about Americans is that they’re at the point where they’re entirely used to the fact that there are protocols for mass shootings. It just boggles my mind that it’s normal now. That’s a sign that you’re far beyond the point where something should be done.

It's not the law that's the problem, it's the people that oversee the law.

“You’re not even my real founding father!” Lmao

To get a gun in Japan, first, you have to attend an all-day class and pass a written test, which are held only once per month. You also must take and pass a shooting range class. Then, head over to a hospital for a mental test and drug test (Japan is unusual in that potential gun owners must affirmatively prove their mental fitness), which you'll file with the police. Finally, pass a rigorous background check for any criminal record or association with criminal or extremist groups, and you will be the proud new owner of your shotgun or air rifle. Just don't forget to provide police with documentation on the specific location of the gun in your home, as well as the ammo, both of which must be locked and stored separately. And remember to have the police inspect the gun once per year and to re-take the class and exam every three years. I got this from a website. If you want to know where I'll tell you

"The problem is school shootings right so let's just get rid of the schools" Trevor Noah 😂😂😂

Trevor was ahead of the Zoom times with his solution

"Why stop the shootings from happening in the first place when we could just train people to fight the shooters and slightly reduce the number of dead?"

Hand to hand combat would be good for bullying but not for shootings

Self defense classes for children... yeah. I'm a martial artist and if there's a guy across the room with an AR-15, there is no judo technique that I know of that lets me dodge bullets. Like, who do they want to train these kids? Neo from the Matrix?

This suggestion by Trevor has come true now

Watching this in Apr 2020. Trevor’s crazy idea was right!

I never really understand this conservative argument: "welp, this is the price of freedom." But suggesting every citizen to be armed, have training on every weapon as well as hand to hand combat, arming and training underpaid teacher (educators!), and have armed guards surveilling your highly populated building, JUST to protect yourself.... "Freedom"? How is living in constant fear for your life that you should have a gun, called freedom and is a fair price?

I bet if every black man went out and bought a gun tomorrow they would change gun laws

1:25 Yep. All of those are accurate descriptions of a school in the eyes of a first grader.

maybe that is the effect of too much rights and less discipline

Who will pay for all the training and the guns the the teachers. REPUBLICANS wont.

So teachers who are not paid enough. And work many hours after or buy things their classes. Should now carry guns ?

That shut up and dribble comment got me

Wow, these grown ups are ready to sound dumb just to protect their guns

Hand to hand combat. Against military rifles. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’ve been waiting for this video for a week. Thank you

At my middle school, we almost had two school shootings. The first was a man that had walked into the school with a gun but was stopped. The second was when a nine year old pulled a gun out of his backpack in the middle of class and started waving it around, his finger on the trigger. I remember hiding under desks in my classroom with the lights off, doors locked and the windows covered. We had to be quiet. I remember being ushered in the car as my mother barrelled us home. I've never been hugged so hard in my life. School shootings arent a joke.

Trevor: get rid of schools Corona virus: done

The metal detector wouldn’t be that bad of an idea... if the majority of kids didn’t HAVE AT LEAST ONE THING VAGUELY METAL IN THEIR BAGS, INCLUDING THEIR 3 RING BINDERS

Good points bro. 😊✌

Tired of people accusing that school shootings are crisis actors.

the saddest part of it all is that there was a study done and almost all mass shooters aren't even mentally ill. Which just makes this more scary cause that means that someone with a "normal" mindset would just get pissed and kill people

I like his solution : get rid of schools.

Did ..... Did I just witness there is no school shooting if there is no school meme on the Daily Show ?

3:04 it actually worked because of coronavirus

"Little Timmy, you must remember the basics of CQC."

Love Trevor Noah!

Thank you for speaking about this Trevor. I go to Douglas and lost someone I was friends with freshman year. It is so important that we make change for the victims of gun violence. I just delivered a speech tonight and I am going to make change every day of my life for Nick and all the other 16 victims and many other victims of gun violence.

Now here in 2020 where we’re all getting home schooled

Trevor: **jokes about everyone being homeschooled** ~ 2 years later ~ COVID-19: "Sure, I can make that happen..." 😅

Welcome back Trevor Noah

There needs to be change! How can the Florida house just vote down any chance of change in front of those kids, oh yeah the NRA!! -.-

Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin

“Hand to hand combat”😂

I am one of those referenced kids who have braces, and I am mildly offended at my forced sacrifice.

TALK ABOUT GUNS!!!! TALK ABOUT GUNS!!! TALK ABOUT GUNS!!!

Trevor is everything I’ve ever needed!he gets me into emotions which end in laughter 🤣🤣🤣

Gun owners need to have gun insurance to pay for victims families

When I hear Trump suggest arming the teachers, I'm reminded of the 1960's TV show "All in the Family", where Archie Bunker's solution to stopping airplane hijacks was by arming all of the passengers.

Happy birthday Trevor!

You can let a 18 year old have a gun but not alcohol it’s more illegal to drink alcohol at 18 but not a gun

When Fox News said that kids need armed training I was like “ that’s why we got jrotc”

Parkland deserved better

PLEASE VOTE!

Teacher here. Sometimes I throw candy at kids when they do something great. My aim is pretty terrible. Please do not arm me.

Thank you Mr. Noah, thank you.

"hand to hand combat...?" 😂😭

Okay, so... I'm a Swede, and over here guns are illegal. Heck, even knives are not allowed to be carried without a rather good reason, someone even got a baseball bat confiscated once when the police asked the person why he was carrying the baseball bat and he answered "To protect myself". Carrying a weapon meant to do harm to other people is not permitted in Sweden. We have a lot less gun violence over here. Gun violence in Sweden make national news, when someone gets killed by a gun anywhere in Sweden, all of Sweden knows about it. I think we're doing pretty well with this whole "gun violence" thing, because we have barely any guns in circulation. The problem America faces with any form of gun control is that the market is SUPER SATURATED with guns. If you start taking guns away, the effects wouldn't be seen for many years because it will take so long for the guns to get out of the hands of the public. Add to that the honestly insane mentality of "guns are a basic right" and you get the reason I'm not visiting the US anytime soon.

When he talked about no schools, that hit hard lmao. its 2021

Praying always work

If you have to register a car or a dog, ... then you should have to register your gun. Registration doesn't mean the government is coming to take your gun. They aren't coming to take your car or your dog. Also, a 28 day waiting period with background checks. No private gun sales, unless they are approved and tracked via police permit. Anything to make people make responsible for their gun ownership. And as in a lot of Europe ... mandatory annual training.

Now it's finally showing who the NRA owns in Congress and it's time to vote them out and put responsible people in congress.

I refuse to get used to this! Exactly! Me neither!! I will continue to be surprised and disgusted.

Lmao the “kids not going to school means no school shootings” joke didn’t age well in 2020

If my teachers had access to guns.... it would not be pretty.

not to deter from the point of this video, but Marco Rubio has massive ears that I never noticed before now

3:41 - 3:45 kids can "learn hand to hand combat". Totally aside from the school shootings issue (which Trevor addresses directly next), it's effectively saying that American Schools should end up doubling as boot camps. There was a society about 2400 years ago (a century either side) that was like that - Sparta. They focused so much on kicking ass that they missed the broader picture of what it takes for societies to survive and thrive. Yes, you may get a nation full of action heroes, but it comes at the price of rendering second-class (if not eliminating) people who are immensely talented in other areas the world values highly, even if they aren't good at hand-to-hand combat (pure science, applied science, medicine, engineering, IT work, finance and commerce, philosophy about what it means to have a good life and a good government; and even things that aren't high-tech and high-science, but still high-end creativity that supplies us with pleasure -- arts, music, theater, film, etc.). That's what you have to give up if you want a society stressing kicking ass to the point where all students have to learn hand-to-hand defense/combat. This may not stop progress entirely, but it'll sure inhibit it - meaning it'll take 1000 years to accomplish what a non-combat-based society would take only 100.

Omg!!! you are soooo good Trevor!!