Jimmy Kimmel is no stranger to turning his monologues into a political statement. Following the shooting in Las Vegas, which has been dubbed the worst mass shooting in American history, the TV host (and Las Vegas native) spoke out on Monday.

“Here we are again, in the aftermath of another terrible, inexplicably shocking and painful tragedy,” he said. “And, of course, we pray for the victims, and for their families and friends and we wonder ‘why.’ And, as a result of that this morning, we have children are without parents and fathers are without sons, mothers without daughters. We lost two police officers, we lost a nurse from Tennessee, a special ed teacher from a local school here in Manhattan Beach. All these devastated families who now have to live with this pain forever because one person with a violent and insane voice in his head managed to stockpile a collection of high-powered rifles. And used them to shoot people.”

He continued: “The shooter was an accountant, with no criminal record, he wasn’t on a watch list; he wasn’t an extremist. And, because of that … I’ve been reading comments from people who say, ‘This is terrible, but there’s nothing we could do about it. I disagree with that intensely.”

Then he went on:

“Of course there was something we can do about it,” he pleaded. “There are a lot of things we can do about it. But we don’t. Which is interesting, because when someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls. We take every possible precaution to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans, then there’s nothing we can do about that. Because the Second Amendment. Our forefathers wanted us to have AK-47s, is the argument.”