"I refuse to give in to that feeling of despair. There is light in this situation. I urge everyone, read up about those who were hurt and or killed in this shooting. You will be comforted by just how much anonymous goodness there really is in the world. You read about the people and you realize that people that you don’t even know, people that you’ve never met are leading lives of real dignity and goodness, and you hear about crazy but it’s rarer than you think. And I think you’ll find yourself even more impressed with Congresswoman Giffords and amazed with how much living some of the deceased packed into lives that were cut way too short. If there is real solace in this, I think it’s that for all the hyperbole and vitriol that’s become a part of our political process, when the reality of that rhetoric, when actions match the disturbing nature of words, we haven’t lost our capacity to be horrified. And please god, let us hope we never do. Let us hope we never become numb to the real horror, to what the blood of real patriots looks like when it’s spilled. Maybe it helps us to remember to match our rhetoric with reality more often because the reality of dangerous rhetoric is that I think even those who speak hyperbolically I think all of them tonight would absolutely recoil and say, ‘Wow, that’s, you know, that is not the picture of what we were discussing and what we were talking about and I have to remember that there’s a reality to that situation that we can’t approach verbally’ because someone or something will shatter our world again and wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t take this opportunity and the loss of these people and the incredible pain that their loved ones are going through right now, wouldn’t it be a shame if we didn’t take that moment to make sure that the world that we are creating now, that will ultimately be shattered again by a moment of lunacy, wouldn’t it be a shame if that world wasn’t better than the one we’ve previously lost." - Jon Stewart