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Congressman blames mass shootings on "these dang smartphones"

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: HuffPost
  • 9 Jun 2022 23:31
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The Congressman made the comments following the emotional testimonies of gun violence survivors and their families.

  • US Congressman Pat Fallon (R-Texas)
    US Congressman Pat Fallon (R-Texas)

Congressman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) proposed Wednesday a cause of gun violence that doesn't involve guns.

During a House Committee hearing, Fallon rejected a call for new gun regulations, suggesting guns were present before mass shootings became commonplace in the US.

"The truth is that guns have always been readily available in this country," Fallon said. "But mass shootings and in particular mass shootings of schools are nonexistent or at least extremely rare until they became a grisly recent phenomenon. So what's changed in the last 50 years?"

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) blamed mass shootings on "the overuse of these dang smartphones." pic.twitter.com/nFI0FsV5cT

— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) June 8, 2022

Fallon blamed the US' epidemic of mass shootings on the "noticeable breakdown of the family," the "erosion of faith", and the "overuse of these dang smartphones."

A GOP US Senate candidate in Georgia's solution to prevent future massacres involved "getting a department that can look [sic] at young men that’s looking at women that looking [sic] at social media.”

In the 24 hours after the Uvalde mass shooting, Fox News proposed "at least 50 solutions, and none of them" involve actual gun control, or gun control legislation.

In the last 24 hours since the Uvalde massacre, Fox News has proposed at least 50 "solutions" and none of them are gun control. pic.twitter.com/EqYcqk9H3k

— K-at Abu (@abughazalehkat) May 25, 2022

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