James Corden Blasts ‘Gun money’ After Texas School Massacre: ‘Nothing Will Change’ (Video)
thewrap.comhorrific massacre of 19 children and 2 adults in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, James Corden spoke extemporaneously on the subject after taping the day’s episode of “The Late Late Show.”While adding that he thinks America is better than this as a country, he also lamented that the U.S.
is “one of the most backward places in the world” when it comes to our problem of mass violence.Watch the video further down the page, and read on for a transcript.“Good evening.
We’ve just finished taping our show, where we tried to have fun and be joyful, but ultimately it was a night of underlying sadness, as more news of events in Texas came into us,” Cordon said during the segment.“As you’ll know by now a gunman entered a school in Texas and killed at least 18 children and two adults.
It’s unfathomable,” he said. “As a father, I can’t imagine the horror of that phone call. When I dropped my kids off at school this morning, and kissed them goodbye, it doesn’t cross your mind that that could ever be the last goodbye.”“The thought of that phone call that your child is the victim in a mass shooting is beyond comprehension as a human being,” Corden continued. “I am so deeply sad for the families of these children, the trauma of the survivors, and for the future these kids will never see.”The shooting is the 212th mass shooting of 2022, according to at least one count.
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