Dr. Ronny Jackson, Trump's White House doctor, once said of his patient that he had “incredibly good genes” and that if he’d eaten a little healthier, he could have lived to be “200 years old”? Ronny's reaction to the Uvalde school massacre displayed the same profound understanding of the psychology of violence as he did of the physiology of old orange men. In short, the man once again proved to be a moron, a quack, a fraud — in addition to being a reputed pill-popping boozehound. And like so many conservatives, he will not allow logic or facts to sway him from his fetishization of America’s cancer — guns.
So what did this micro-intellect have to offer on the subject? Here are his words,
"There's going to be all kinds of discussions coming up, unfortunately, you know, in the media regarding Second Amendment rights. But I think we really need to ask the question, how could something like this happen?"
"When I grew up, things were different. 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 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, you know, it's not good for kids."
Let us play along and ask this question. Why is it that the UK — which also has rap music, video games, and the internet — does not have school massacres? Here is a hint in question form. What is the thing that your homicidal maniac in Great Britain does not have easy access to?
I grew up in the UK. The image of a nation of well-mannered tea-sippers is not accurate. There were skinheads, yobs, and other violent delinquents. Steel-tipped Doc Martins were the fashion choice of the well-dressed yahoo. And the head butt was a skill handed down from father to son.
Argy-bargy was a feature of Friday nights and a favorite past-time of the binge-drinking fringe. And at the acme of the getting-the-boot-in pantheon was the world-renowned British football hooligan. The English may have trouble winning major international soccer trophies, but they are second to none with mindless violence around soccer matches.
And yet they do not have school massacres. Or even many of the humdrum “one victim at a time” shootings — while America averages over 50 a day. Why?
I will write slowly, so Ronny can keep up. They do not have easy access to guns. What is so hard to understand?
While that is sufficient, there is more. The British do not think there are many good reasons to kill people. Whereas in the US, the gun lobby and their political handmaids bombard the citizen with messages encouraging them to shoot first. Stand your ground is the worst. You feel uncomfortable, so you are justified in killing someone? The rest of the world thinks that is insane. The gun-nut culture says that if you want to be a real man (or woman) you must pack heat and strut around like a demented peacock.
And the NRA says that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Really? There are millions of good guys with guns in Texas. They did not help. And to those who say that “if only the teachers were armed”, consider the Buffalo super-market massacre. An armed security guard — an ex-cop, no less — confronted the gunman and was killed. Teachers would do better?
Ronny is a zealot who cleaves to some misremembered, fictional idyllic past. What was the truth? Today’s fifty-somethings grew up during an era where the Ronny Jacksons of the time said that TV was rotting kids' brains, movie violence was raising a generation of thugs, and music was promoting Satanism. The disparagement of younger generations by fading humbugs is an old story. And soon the “youth of today” will age into tomorrow's middle-aged, sanctimonious moralists offering pointless insights into society's problems.
And the killings will never end.
And to those offering thoughts and prayers, I ask, “Where was God?” And “Why does he let little children suffer?”
I sent this to Ronny, maybe he’ll read it but I doubt his fragile little ego can take it, thank you Pitt