Kimmel made an emotional plea for action in his monologue on “Live!” — first agreeing with two of Trump’s statements from a Thursday morning address about the shooting. He cited two similar quotes from Trump, including that “no parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning.”

“I agree with both of those statements,” Kimmel said. “And here’s what you do to fix that, tell your buddies in Congress, tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities, that what we need are laws, real laws, that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids. Go on TV and tell them to do that.”

Jimmy Kimmel calls out lawmakers in emotional late-night monologue

The comments received loud applause from his audience.

He continued on, attacking Republican politicians and commentators for saying it was too soon to have a discussion over gun control. Ryan, the House Speaker, was among those politicians, telling reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday, “We need to step back” and it is “not the time to jump to conclusions.” Kimmel singled out similar comments from McConnell, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

“Don’t you dare let anyone say it’s too soon to be talking about it, because you said it after Vegas, you said it after Sandy Hook, you say that after every one of these eight now fatal school shootings we had in this country this year,” Kimmel said. “Children are being murdered.”