As the country still mourns on the horrific event that took place in Uvalde, Texas, politicians are still having debates on what could have possibly caused the incident to occur. U.S. representative Ronny Jackson recently spoke with Fox News about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary school and compared the differences on how it was for him growing up in a small city in Texas.
Thankfully kids in Canada, the UK, and other countries don’t have access to the horrors of “rap music, video games, and the internet” otherwise according to Ronny Jackson there would likely be mass shootings there too.
Oh wait…🙄 https://t.co/L8NYWJascx
— Glenton Richards 🇺🇦 (@glentonrich) May 26, 2022
“I grew up in a small town in West Texas, not too much smaller than Uvalde, and I could never imagine something like this happening when I grew up, but when I grew up, things were different. There was a focus on family and community and church, and I think we knew each other. And I’m not saying that the people in Uvalde don’t know each other, but I think that’s been robbed from us. I think that our culture has changed over the last 30 or 40 years, and there’s been an attack on those things in particular.”
Jackson then directed his blame to different things that he feels are a bad influence on children, including hip hop: “And I just think that kids are exposed to all kinds of horrible stuff nowadays, too. I look back and I think about the horrible stuff that they hear when they listen to rap music, the video games that they watch from a really early age with all of this horrible violence and stuff, and I just think that … they have this access to the internet on a regular basis, which is just not good for kids, I don’t think.”
This is how stupid @RonnyJacksonTX is. 100% STUPID. https://t.co/6wmH7GRcig
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) May 26, 2022
Ronny Jackson is currently under investigation for possibly violating federal law by using campaign funds to pay for “unlimited access” to a private dining club in Texas, according to a review by a House advisory panel.
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The Office of Congressional Ethics is asking the House Committee on Ethics to investigate Jackson’s use of campaign funds after its review found “substantial reason to believe” that Jackson either modified campaign funds for personal use or spent funds that were not attributable to campaign or political purposes — a potential violation of campaign finance law and House rules.
GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson may have violated federal law by using campaign funds to pay for “unlimited access” to a private dining club in Texas, according to a review by a House advisory panel, referring the matter for further investigation. https://t.co/QRUzA4zpul
— CNN (@CNN) May 24, 2022
Jackson refused to cooperate with the investigation, according to the review, but his attorney disputed the findings in a letter to the House ethics panel.