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Fri Sep 6, 2024, 06:36 AM Sep 6

JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life" [View all]

Source: Salon

Published September 5, 2024 9:39PM (EDT)


Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said that school shootings were simply a “fact of life” after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four dead — the 45th school shooting in the United States so far this year.

The comments, made at an Arizona rally on Thursday, come after Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz called for enhanced gun control measures in their own campaign rallies following the shooting.

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said, bucking a question asked on gun control measures and instead championing efforts to spend more on school security, per the Associated Press. “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.”

Vance, who noted that the event was an “awful tragedy,” faced criticism in June for calling gun violence in schools a “fake problem” and called an attempt to ban bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas shooting that killed 60, a “huge distraction.”

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/09/05/jd-vance-says-school-are-a-fact-of-life/

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So... 2naSalit Sep 6 #1
Easy for him to say Bernardo de La Paz Sep 6 #13
Not a fact of life,but BattleRow Sep 6 #58
Like I have said in other posts, J D Vance can go fuck himself. Ray Bruns Sep 6 #2
Just another republican sociopath bumbling before the willfully ignorant cultists. Magoo48 Sep 6 #17
Maybe this is to encourage fear, BattleRow Sep 6 #52
++ appalachiablue Sep 6 #79
And, as the couches in the chat know, he would fuck himself if he could ArkansasDemocrat1 Sep 6 #26
J D Vance can go fuck himself Moon_Dog Sep 6 #47
J-DiVan-ce Can Go Fall Onto His Fainting Couch nt smb Sep 7 #84
Bastard. Irish_Dem Sep 6 #3
Of course, since he's a Republican, he won't feel anything for the victims, and unless one of his children is torn apart Walleye Sep 6 #4
"They think any cluster of fertized ovum is a child." sarge43 Sep 6 #18
Cannon fodder BattleRow Sep 6 #57
Wage slaves sarge43 Sep 6 #62
SS branded cattle BattleRow Sep 6 #63
Nothing more traditional at the holler than a good old shoot 'em up Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 6 #5
That some people don't want to have kids is also a fact of life. Probatim Sep 6 #6
The Republican party benefits by destroying public education. Republican gun policies are therefore terrorist tactics. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 6 #7
That's rich PJMcK Sep 6 #8
They think somehow they're immune. Even after the Trump incident. I don't get it, I really don't get it. Vinca Sep 6 #9
Vance is saying,... magicarpet Sep 6 #80
As long as you hand out guns like candy on Halloween you can expect it. twodogsbarking Sep 6 #10
Banning bump stocks is a huge distraction? But your candidate truthisfreedom Sep 6 #11
Arm the kids, an armed society is a polite society IronLionZion Sep 6 #12
"The only thing to stop a Bad Guy with a gun, is a Good Guy with a gun" Seinan Sensei Sep 6 #44
Vance telling you who he is. Aussie105 Sep 6 #14
And what Charlton Heston said while NRA president IronLionZion Sep 6 #22
Society needs more "replacement kids"? Zambero Sep 6 #15
I'd like to ram this up JD Vance's ass... chouchou Sep 6 #16
Thank you seems weird so I will say Prairie_Seagull Sep 6 #43
They don't need to be, you effing moron! Clouds Passing Sep 6 #19
JD Vance calls school shootings 'a fact of life,' faces pushback LetMyPeopleVote Sep 6 #20
but of course, he is "pro-life" Skittles Sep 6 #78
Therefore, there's nothing we can do about school shootings per JD Vance. Kid Berwyn Sep 6 #21
All He Knows RobinA Sep 6 #42
In addition to separating AR-15s from nutjobs... Kid Berwyn Sep 6 #45
Looking at this photo I have to ask... Hope22 Sep 6 #23
Fuck you, JD Vance. Scully Sep 6 #24
The Harris Walz campaign just released this SCATHING statement on JD Vance calling school shootings a "fact of life." LetMyPeopleVote Sep 6 #25
If you want "scathing", one of those media groups... keep_left Sep 6 #60
Well... wryter2000 Sep 6 #27
Way to problem solve MuseRider Sep 6 #28
Not when Linda ladeewolf Sep 6 #29
NRA became a domestic, Russian backed fascist organization? Evolve Dammit Sep 6 #65
That and Linda ladeewolf Sep 6 #71
Not This "Video Games" Nonsense smb Sep 7 #85
Very true Linda ladeewolf Sep 7 #88
This is what happens when all they care about are themselves. BlueWavePsych Sep 6 #30
School shootings are a fact of death. twodogsbarking Sep 6 #31
It's the reality we live in, we've got to deal with it. patphil Sep 6 #32
Someone needs to sit CouchTool down and tell him about the birds, bees and bullets Wicked Blue Sep 6 #33
J.D. Vance's idiocy, lack of empathy, and total ignorance is a fact of life. Martin68 Sep 6 #34
If we listened closely at the time he said this birdographer Sep 6 #35
ours is the only country where this is a regular occurrence IronLionZion Sep 6 #36
Abortions are also a fact of life. Let's try thoughts and prayers for them keithbvadu2 Sep 6 #37
My kids are grown (like many here) Prairie_Seagull Sep 6 #38
So schoolkids should be Kamikaze's for Vance? usonian Sep 6 #39
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them all, and then you have the Facts of Life! Oopsie Daisy Sep 6 #40
So we should just accept that?! barbtries Sep 6 #41
Then he's a bad, bad Catholic. ancianita Sep 6 #46
This man is not a catholic Keepthesoulalive Sep 6 #50
He's both. Baptized Catholic in 2019 and bought and paid for idiot ever since. ancianita Sep 6 #53
Paging Opus Dei BattleRow Sep 6 #64
When he loses he'll have the rest of his life to repent. lol ancianita Sep 6 #66
If there is justice, BattleRow Sep 6 #68
Oh, there is. ancianita Sep 6 #69
There is absolutely no honor BattleRow Sep 6 #70
okay then...thanks for the non sequitur ancianita Sep 6 #72
Yw BattleRow Sep 6 #74
A fact of life Jean Genie Sep 6 #48
Yeah we see his 'kind: JimmyGnarlyFL Sep 6 #49
Thanks to the GOP and NRA, school shootings are indeed at fact of life for us. Begone J Dunce Vance! C0RI0LANUS Sep 6 #51
Trump response to school shooting: "We have to get over it" LetMyPeopleVote Sep 6 #54
Just disgusting. Old Crank Sep 6 #55
According to Vance the Earth is flat and Gravity is only a 'theory'. Ford_Prefect Sep 6 #56
"If these psychos are going to go after our kids we've got to be prepared for it..." agalisgv Sep 6 #59
This message was self-deleted by its author Harker Sep 6 #61
Doesn't feel the same about abortions however Raven123 Sep 6 #67
He is just another PAY to SAY. This is for soundbites/cips for their base, sans the stupid AF stuff! Brainfodder Sep 6 #73
Authoritarians believe that it is markodochartaigh Sep 6 #75
What can I say, that has not already been said? OAITW r.2.0 Sep 6 #76
How could you vote for that? elias7 Sep 6 #77
"Purported Pro-life Guy Says Kids Getting Murdered at School is 'Fact of Life' " Beartracks Sep 6 #81
Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC this morning IcyPeas Sep 6 #82
Like midterms and detention Nasruddin Sep 7 #83
No no no, they should not be a fact of life, what an idiot 😡 TommieMommy Sep 7 #86
An idiot possibly, but more like a bearer of bad news. republianmushroom Sep 7 #87
Shady likely thinks children are completely replaceable - TBF Sep 7 #89
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