Jon Stewart Urges ‘No Shooting’ Rule After Trump’s Second Assassination Attempt

Former US President Donald Trump narrowly escaped another assassination attempt on September 15. A sniper with a scoped AK-47 rifle managed to get within a few hundred yards of Trump while he was golfing at his West Palm Beach, Florida club.

This marks the second time in two months that an armed attacker has tried to take down the 45th president.

Comedian-writer Jon Stewart weighed in on the recent assassination attempt on Trump at the 2024 Emmys in Los Angeles, suggesting a ‘no shooting’ policy should be adopted by all.

‘I think you have to apply your same methodology that you would use almost on anything; you try not to get caught up. Look… I think the one rule maybe we could all benefit from in terms of engagement is ‘no shooting.’ No matter how mad you are, no matter who you don’t like, who you hate… I believe instituting a ‘no shooting’ policy would be the way to take things down a notch,’ he said, matter-of-fact.

Stewart noted that people shouldn’t feel pressured to make profound statements about current events while processing them. He then praised his Daily Show colleagues and commended the news media for its rapid coverage of events.

‘These are incredibly talented producers, writers, comics — as long as we try and stay to, I think, what we do well, we’ll try and take any situation as it comes. As long as we don’t fall prey to what we think might be this larger moment. We’ll leave that to the actual news. Who will do it great, as we’ve seen,’ he added.

Jon Stewart took the Emmy Awards stage to accept the Best Variety Series award for The Daily Show for the second consecutive year. Stewart, who hosted the show from 1999 to 2015, now returns to the Comedy Central desk on Monday nights only.

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