Jordan Klepper Is Begging You, America: Be More Like the McCloskeys

The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper said he hadn’t planned on spending every night during his first week behind Trevor Noah’s abandoned desk talking about gun control—“but this is America, and it’s not giving me a choice.”

In the past week alone, there have been three highly publicized “wrong place” shootings, during which an unsuspecting individual (in this case, two of them teenagers, and one just 20 years old) knocked on the wrong door, showed up at the wrong address, or attempted to get into the wrong car and nearly paid for those innocent mistakes with their lives. Which prompted Klepper to ask if “anyone else watching these stories feels like they’re losing their goddamn minds?”

“Call me old-fashioned,” Klepper continued, “but whatever happened to asking a person one fucking question? Are you confused about why a stranger is at your house? Before you open fire, open your mouth and just ask them: ‘Can I help you?’ It’s not that hard.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.