The truth revealed... It's the smart phones...

[Ohio Joe]

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) this week linked mass shootings to "the overuse" of "dang smartphones."

At a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Fallon rejected the call for new gun regulations following the recent mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas.

"Guns have always been readily available in this country but mass shootings and particularly mass shootings of schools were non-existent or extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon," he told the committee.

"So what's changed in the last 50 years?" Fallon asked. "There's been a noticeable breakdown of the family, there's been an erosion of faith and there's been a seismic drop in social interaction in large measure due to the overuse of these dang smartphones and the proliferation of social media, which is probably better described as anti-social media."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmaker-blames-dang-smartphones-at-hearing-on-mass-shootings/ar-AAYez4H?bk=1&bk=1&ocid=msedgntp&cvid=88b53963a2774d39921c613fe73141e9

Jesus H tap dancing christ on a popsicle stick... They will blame ANYTHING... But guns.

[iemanja]

1. Lunatic

[jimfields33]

2. I do think something changed in our country

50 years ago kids had guns in the back of their trucks at school to go hunt after school. Today something is out of control. Too many guns is definitely part of it. It’s a multi problem that must be fixed now.

[Initech]

5. The problem too is too many young people are being radicalized on social media.

There's online groups that are openly and actively encouraging young people to buy weapons like AR-15s and use them in places where lots of people gather. Because... "it's cool for active shooter stuff". They think it's a game or a joke. It's neither of those things, there's real world consequences.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-gun-politics-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-2d37c8ede6135eca9f0b2150e7927a92

We're actively becoming the countries we claim to despise because of this shit.

[jimfields33]

6. Yieks. That's horrible. Social media certainly has turned very bad from its beginnings.

[Elessar Zappa]

10. Who put Trump in office?

Hint, it wasn’t young people. Also violent crime (murder, rape) rates were higher in the 70s, 80s and 90s, when todays young people weren’t even alive. Granted, mass shootings are way up and it’s young people who are the culprits. But overall, I like this generation of kids. Much more tolerance of diversity.

[Initech]

11. No, I know that. It was mainly middle aged middle managers that did.

Trust me, I'm in this age group and I know several people in this demographic that are dyed in the wool Trumpsters and MAGA / Q holes. These are the kind of people who likely have Fox News turned to every TV in the house and buy the horseshit that Alex Jones sells in the Infowars store. They are also likely to be the ones who are radicalized and targeted by Putin's troll army in Russia and flipped to the side of crazy. And that's the kind of thing we need to worry about tricking down to our high school age children. They're the ones who are just learning how to navigate the internet and there's a lot of toxic shit out there that's aimed squarely at them, whether it's through gaming or social media.

I also realized that I sound like this guy in my previous post:

[Elessar Zappa]

12. No, you're fine!

I understood your post, just wanted to add to it.

[Coventina]

3. Please explain to me how "the family" has broken down?

Last I checked, the vast majority of people I know have a family.

[Initech]

4. I'd be willing to bet his Google search history turns up some interesting stuff.

[teach1st]

7. Other countries don't have smart phones? N/T

[Pyryck]

8. The pointing out of the problem...

The Index finger points at the perceived or alleged problem ...

while the other 3 fingers of the hand point out and self-implicate the obvious cause of the problem.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Another Dumbass Republican

Anything smart is elitist and a threat to conservative values.