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JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a 'fact of life' and calls for better security (apnews.com)

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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday that he lamented that school shootings are a “fact of life” and argued the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. “We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it.”

The Ohio senator was asked by a journalist what can be done to stop school shootings. He said further restricting access to guns, as many Democrats advocate, won’t end them, noting they happen in states with both lax and strict gun laws. He touted efforts in Congress to give schools more money for security.

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There were three armed SROs in the school. What the fuck does he mean when he says schools are soft targets? Should all the students be armed too?

[–] beebarfbadger 5 points 2 months ago

NRA, who would gladly supply the weapons - for a price, of course - says YES!!!

Now, I hear you say, that would preemptively arm any wannabe school shooters and eliminate any leftover threshold for their shooting sprees, but the NRA has a solution to that problem too: more fear of guns means more people buying more guns to protect themselves from all the guns in circulation.

It's beautiful, isn't it? * wipes away single tear with dollar signs in both eyes *