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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 weve 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 dont have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. Weve 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/