In the wake of the mass shooting that occurred earlier this week in Uvalde, Texas, many Democratic members of Congress are calling for more gun control.
Friday on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program,” U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) argued that more gun laws would not solve the problem. He said mass shootings and other violent acts in America were a result of declining “moral values” in American society.
“What we have to do is restore moral values,” he advised. “You know, when I was a kid, a teenager, 16, 17, 18, drove a car, I often went duck hunting in mornings and then drove to school with my waders and my shotgun in my car. OK? Guns were very common back when I was growing up, but we did not have these assaults at schools cause we had moral values.”
The congressman and U.S. Senate candidate stated there were too many broken homes in America, which contributed to this problem.
“We had two-parent households, by way of example,” he explained, “where it’s a lot easier for the parents to double team the children, so to speak, to instill the moral values that are necessary, to instill the respect for life, to instill the golden rule-do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s a huge societal change from back then to now.”
Brooks said the lack of these moral values waS also causing other problems in America today.
“[A]ll of this is demeaning and degrading our moral values that are so important, that guide us to do the right thing towards others rather than the wrong thing,” he lamented, “and you see it in our streets. You see it in Chicago, you see it in New York, you see it in San Francisco, where they just go stealing things willy nilly, and it’s almost approved by the law as long as you kept the theft under 900 bucks. I mean, it’s craziness!”
He then explained how certain government policies encouraged people to make bad decisions.
“Moral values Mike, that’s the key,” he said, “and we have passed tax laws, welfare laws to make it easier for people to break up and the child to be in a one-parent household because they get more money. That’s crazy. We need to be encouraging families to stay together. We need to be encouraging a mother and father to be in the same household so that you can do a better job of parenting.”
When asked if he would support any new gun laws, Brooks said more gun restrictions were not the solution.
“There’s nothing that the Democrats have proposed would have stopped what happened at Sandy Hook or would have stopped what happened in Texas,” he argued.
The congressman said he will protect the gun rights of law-abiding Americans.
“I believe in the Second Amendment right to bear arms,” he argued, “and when it says the right to bear arms should not be infringed I don’t want anything that’s going to infringe on that right to keep and bear arms.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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