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It says a lot when Jon Stewart, who’s made a career of calling the media and politicians on their bullshit, says he’s found “hypocrisy of the highest order.” Those are, however, Stewart’s parting words after a typically heated debate with Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm during Friday’s The Problem with Jon Stewart.
Each week’s episode of Stewart’s Apple TV+ series zeroes in on one issue, and this week Stewart chose to tackle gun reform, a subject he’s previously discussed numerous times on The Daily Show and elsewhere.
The comedian was in peak form Friday as he needled Dahm about his support of legislation that loosens gun restrictions. “You’re saying more guns makes us more safe,” Stewart said early on. “So when? We’ve got 4 million guns in the country. We had an increase and gun deaths went up. So when, exactly, does this curve hit that takes it down? Would a billion guns do it?”