The horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday (May 24) claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. It also marked the 27th school shooting to take place in the United States in 2022. With people desperate for answers as to why 18-year-old Salvador Ramos would commit such a heinous act, various theories are rampant.
And Texas congressman Ronny Jackson believes rap lyrics and video games are to blame. During an interview with Fox News, Jackson — who made sure to offer his “prayers and thoughts” to the victims and their families — called the incident “unbelievable evil” before explaining why he thinks rap is at fault. On Thursday (May 26), Public Enemy shared a clip of Jackson’s comments and added a “clown” emoji in the caption.
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“I think we really need to ask the question, ‘How can something like this happen?'” Jackson asks. “How can somebody do something so evil? […] I grew up in a small town in West Texas, not too much smaller in Uvalde, and I could never imagine something like this happening when I grew up. When I grew up, things were different. There was a focus on family and community and church. I think we knew each other.
“And I’m not saying the people in Uvalde don’t know each other, but I think that’s been robbed from us. Our culture has changed over the last 30 or 40 years, and there’s been an attack on those things in particular. I just think kids are exposed to all kinds of horrible stuff nowadays. I look back and I think about the horrible stuff they hear when they listen to rap music, the video games they watch from a really early age and all of this horrible violence and stuff. I just think they have all this access to the internet on a regular basis, which is just not good for kids.”
Watch the clip below.
he’s technically not wrong. it definitely doesn’t help. and public enemy ol heads still think they have a voice haha gonna need ice on that emoji burn from two 50 yr olds.
The guy who sold an 18yo two ARs and 375 rounds of ammunition “didn’t help”. The officers who chose to stand around for an hour as he shot up the class “didn’t help”. Those who bullied this loser his entire life and left him in a state of isolated depravity “didn’t help”. Hold responsibility to where it counts, there were people in his life who could’ve done more, it’s not rap and video games responsibility to raise anyone’s kids.
Was with you until you mentioned bullying. The guy was a white hispanic asshole MAN looking to cause destruction. Blame it on the individual not the alleged causes. Fuck him
“It was a , it was a trans man!!!”
Says the Russian butt puppet. Shut up, you commie bastard. Stop trolling on here already.
Keep PE’s name out of your dk sucking “new head” mouth.
Somehow the whole world has access to the internet, video games and rap music but somehow the US sitze worst affected ?
Did that creepy goth looking kid really listen to rap music ? 20 years ago I would have said hell no. But with Gen Z who knows ? Your average school shooter looks like jack harlow or murda beatz.
He looks more like he listens to Billie Eilish than Hip Hop.
Ah yes. Those awful, evil rap lyrics and video games. Those are the ones that made him go out and kill people in a school. Certainly not anything that happened to him in his life and how he got the gun in the first place. The type or rap music and video games also only exist in this country, apparently.
And certainly not the police officers too scare to go in and stop him from doing anything in the first place. They’re not to blame. We have to keep them safe. That’s our number one priority.
well yeah, that’s part of the problem. it takes one homey out of so many to do shit like this. i think the reality is there will be more shootings you can move heaven and earth but this will happen again and again. some of you might be too young to remember columbine high school in 1999. two homeys shooting up the school. it started there it has been the focalpoint since why how i don’t know.
These congressman want us to keep running through the same wheel of thought and repeatedly debate the same thing over and over and over, while they accept money to keep power. They don’t want us to make any progress. Politicians want to pit us against each other and argue endlessly about principles that they don’t even believe in, so we are too exhausted to see what is really going on. Ted Cruz doesn’t care about guns, Joe Biden doesn’t care about guns, none of these people care about guns. They care about getting paid to say things so they can keep their power. None of this crap affects them, they have money, protection, and power. Their values are bought by corporations. The video game debate is 20 years old. We’ve been arguing about it for 20 years. They want to send us down a never ending rabbit hole of debates, while they do nothing. “Let make them argue about video games and music, they reference guns” instead of actually talking about real life guns.
Rap music and video games are all over the world thanks to the internet. America time and time again has mass shootings. Weird, it’s almost like any stressed out jackass in the US can get a gun or something
these people never found anything they couldn’t blame on black people. this cock smoker on TV talking about rap music after a school gets shot up by some goth creep. They blame rap music but none of these murdering kids are rap music fans. worthless country filled with worthless liars. hate rots out your soul period
Nah, the real issue is broken homes. Broken childhoods. Mental illness. And hatred. Thats it. Blame the scumbags who kill, not anyone else, unless someone directly pushed them to do it. Rap music says nasty things, I like violent video games… but I’m the chillest dude ever. Because I’m not mentally unstable. Maybe violent video games ans gangster rap make idiots and crazies do crazy shit. But for anyone who is sane, it’s just entertainment. The reason there’s so much violent crime nowadays is because our culture has lowered the bar of morality so damn low. The media doesn’t care about morality, or showing the good in humanity. They show the bad. Hence why Kardashian shows are a hit. All the “Bhad Babies” of the world are a hit. It destroys our youth and lowers the bar. When you lower the bar so low, don’t worry surprised when you end up with more degenerates with no moral compass.