Rep. Pat Fallon Blames Mass Shootings On ‘Dang Smartphones’
Although weapons are, by definition, part of each single mass taking pictures, many Republican politicians twist themselves into knots attempting in charge them on one thing, something aside from firearms.
On Wednesday, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) got here up with yet one more explanation for gun violence that doesn’t really contain weapons.
If you’re studying this in your cellphone, you would possibly wish to sit down — as a result of he’s blaming smartphones.
During a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, Fallon rejected a name for brand new gun laws by suggesting weapons had been round lengthy earlier than the comparatively current rash of mass shootings started.
“Guns have always been readily available in this country but mass shootings and particularly mass shootings of schools were nonexistent or extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon,” Fallon advised the committee.
“So what’s changed in the last 50 years?” he requested, earlier than providing his personal idea.
“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,” he stated whereas holding up his personal system as a visible assist.
As talked about above, Fallon isn’t the one individual providing ideas for decreasing gun violence that don’t contain curbing weapons ― particularly within the wake of final month’s mass taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas.
Herschel Walker, a GOP U.S. Senate candidate in Georgia, had a head-scratching suggestion for stopping future massacres.
“What about getting a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that looking at social media,” he stated.
In addition, the supercut video beneath exhibits Fox News personalities providing 50 ideas for curbing gun violence that don’t contain weapons however do embody improved fencing and decreased cellphone utilization.
