Chris Rock's new Netflix special takes on the gun control debate, and was released the same day as the Florida high school shooting

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Chris Rock in "Tamborine"

• Chris Rock tackles the gun control debate in his new Netflix special "Tamborine."
• It feels eerily relevant since the special was released the same day as the Parkland, Florida shooting on Wednesday.
• Some viewers took to Twitter to comment on the strangeness of the timing.

Not even 10 minutes into Chris Rock's new Netflix stand-up special, "Tamborine," viewers may have been left with an eerie feeling. Around the 6-minute mark, Rock addresses the gun debate in America.

It's not uncommon for comedians to tackle controversial issues, but the timing of Rock's routine makes this particularly relevant.

"Tamborine" became available on Netflix Wednesday, the same day 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida. (The special was filmed in November, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.)

"This gun sh-- ain't going nowhere," Rock says in the special. "There ain't never gonna be no gun control. You talk about it too long, and you're gonna get shot."

He addresses the pro-gun argument that a knife could do just as much damage.

"If 100 people ever got stabbed at the same time, in the same place, by the same person, you know what that would mean?" he asks the audience. "97 people deserve to die."

While Rock filmed his special prior to the Florida shooting, two other mass shootings rattled the country leading up to this show - the Las Vegas shooting in October that left 58 people dead at a concert, and the Texas church shooting in November that left 26 dead.

Since the release of the special, viewers have gone on Twitter to comment on the strangeness of the timing:

It speaks to the prevalence of shootings in America that "Tamborine" feels so relevant; Rock also addressed guns in a famous bit from his stand-up special "Bigger and Blacker" - in 1999. 

Rock said that bullets should cost $5,000 and called it "bullet control" at the time.

"People would think before they killed somebody if a bullet cost $5,000," he said.