Trevor Noah blasts Fox News response to Las Vegas shooting

Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” is ripping Fox News’s response to the Las Vegas shooting in which a lone gunman killed at least 59 people and wounded hundreds more.

Noah focused his ire on Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“According to Sean Hannity, what really stops a bad guy with a gun is a Sean Hannity with a gun,” Noah said.

{mosads}Hannity on Tuesday spoke about his experience using firearms and his view that mass shootings can be prevented if civilians are armed.

“If it’s happening within a crowd … you want Sean Hannity who’s trained in the safety and use of a firearm in that room, so when they drop the clip and they start to reload, you’ve got a shot,” Hannity said.

Noah argued that the circumstances in Las Vegas, in which the shooter rained fire down on a crowd from a room on the 32nd floor of a hotel, argued against Hannity’s claims.

“The shooter was 400 yards away, in a hotel room 32 floors up,” Noah said. “That’s like saying, ‘if Tyra Banks had no money, and I had all the money, and she was like, really hungry, I might have a chance.’ It’s not reality.”

Noah also joked that the Las Vegas shooter was a more difficult figure for the ire of Fox News personalities. Stephen Paddock, 64, has been described as a wealthy former businessman. He is believed to have shot himself as police moved in on his hotel room.

“He’s not Muslim, he wasn’t known to be mentally ill, he doesn’t kneel for the anthem,” Noah said, arguing he represented a challenge to Fox News. “He’s just a rich white guy who shot people at a country music concert. How do you hate him? There’s nothing to hate.”