Colbert: If You Feel ‘Powerless’ After These Tragedies, You Can ‘Get The Power Back’ By Voting

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert took a moment to address the massacre that took place in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

“The world is a harrowing place and sometimes you don’t what to say about it,” Colbert began. “For instance, I haven’t the slightest idea how to adequately address the attack in Sutherland Springs, Texas yesterday.”

The Late Show host stressed how your heart is broken and you feel hopelessness after these tragedies, but that hopelessness “is not the answer.”

“Doing nothing, as I’ve said before, is unacceptable, but it’s unnatural,” Colbert continued. “It’s inhuman. It just goes against our nature. It just goes against our nature. We want to fix things. You want to respond to something terrible like this, not just now but at anytime in human history.”

Colbert went on to say that evil people “want you to feel powerless” and that those who may want to feel more powerful go “buy a gun,” which he insisted leads to “more guns on the streets.”

“So what do you do? If you’re not going to be hopeless but you feel powerless, how do you get the power back?” Colbert asked. “Well I think there’s one power you must never forget and that is you can vote. You can go vote in 2018. Vote for someone who will do something. Because this is an active evil and the only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.”

Watch the clip above, via CBS.

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