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Rep Mo Brooks Says Teaching Proper Moral Values Is The Solution To Our Gun Violence Problem

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Rep Mo Brooks(R-AL) on Fox News Sunday(05/29/22) with host Sandra Smith

Rep Mo Brooks(R-AL), who has an A rating from the National Rifle Association, appeared on Fox News Sunday(05/29/22) to discuss the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Asked by host Sandra Smith whether he would support stricter laws regarding the sale of firearms as a way of reducing gun violence, Rep Brooks gave an interesting response, saying the solution to our gun problems is to teach our young people proper moral values. Yup, lax Republican laws that make it easier for teens to acquire deadly weapons are not the problem, just teach the young ones proper moral values.

Host Sandra Smith(2:40):“Gallup research does find that a majority of Americans, 52% of them, are in favor of stricter gun laws when it comes to the sale of firearms. So to the majority of Americans who feel that way, you say what?”

Rep Mo Brooks:“Back when I was growing up we didn’t have these mass killings, okay, they weren’t there, they didn’t occur, or if they did, I certainly was not cognisant of them, and they were very very very rare, so rare, that I cannot recall a single instant in which one of those things occured during my youth. Today they are much more common. What’s the big difference between when I was growing up and today? The big difference is a decline in the moral values, a decline in the respect for human life. If we teach proper moral values, if we teach respect for human life, if we properly address mental health issues that may somehow or another be associated with all these things, then that is the way to fix the problem.”

Now, folks, one doesn’t have to be a Havard educated genius to realize that the kind of fix Rep Brooks is recommending(moral values reset) for our clear and present gun violence problem, will take generations to materialize, if it ever materializes. It this is the GOP’s position(moral values reset), even after the horrific Uvalde shooting, where we witnessed innocent 4th graders getting slaughtered in their classroom, then I hate to say it folks, get ready for more mass shooting horrors. There is no solution coming from Congress.

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Alabama Sheriff Stole $1.5M Meant To Feed Immigration Detainees

Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin (Republican)

A shocking piece by The Week says an Alabama Sheriff, a Republican, personally pocketed $1.5 million meant to feed immigration detainees. Etowah County has a contract with the federal government(DHE-ICE) to house immigration detainees as they await adjudication of their immigration cases. As a result of this contract with the federal government, Etowah County receives federal funds from DHS-ICE to feed the county’s immigration detainees. Turns out when $3 million of the federal funds were not spent on feeding the immigration detainees(surplus), Republican Sheriff Entrekin kept half of that($1.5 million) for himself.

While many people from other parts of the country may find this story shocking, this kind of graft is actually very common, even legal in the deep-red Republican state of Alabama. The same Sheriff Entrekin was in the news a few months ago for a similar story. He apparently spent some $750,000 of Alabama state funds meant to feed state inmates at Etowah County to buy himself a beach house. This story made national news but the shocking part was that Alabama law allowed him to do that.

Specifically, Alabama law apparently allows a County Sheriff to personally pocket half of the money that was earmarked to feed inmates but is not used for that purpose(half of the surplus). So for example if $5 million is earmarked for feeding County inmates and at the end of the calendar year $2 million of that was not used(surplus), half of that($1 million) goes to the County’s general fund and the other half($1 million) is personally pocketed by the Sheriff. As you might expect, county inmates in Alabama are often served inadequate and even rotten food as the article correctly points out–a total travesty!!

Excerpt from Bonnie Kristian’s 12/31/2018 piece in The Week

It is against this backdrop that Sheriff Entrekin finds himself in trouble with federal authorities. In other words according to him, because the state of Alabama allows him to literally starve county inmates so he can buy himself a beach house, he figured he could do the same with federal immigration detainees housed in his Etowah County. Out of the $3 million surplus in federal funds meant to feed immigration detainees, he kept $1.5 million for himself. Luckily it appears federal prosecutors are not amused with this kind of out and out graft that is apparently legal in Alabama and may soon go after outgoing Sheriff Entrekin ( he lost his re-election bid this past November)

Bottom line, maybe this should be an eye opener to House Democrats and indeed the mainstream media to start scrutinizing how federal funds earmarked for immigration detainees are being used. Yours Truly will go out on a limb and say the kind of shocking corruption reported in Etowah County is by no means an isolated case–especially in deep-red “tough-on-immigration” Republican states.

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