JD Vance calls school shootings 'a fact of life,' faces pushback

[LetMyPeopleVote]

To hear JD Vance tell it, deadly school shootings, such as this week's tragedy in Georgia, are "a fact of life.” The comments generated swift pushback.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vance-calls-school-shootings-fact-life-faces-pushback-rcna169900

In general, in the immediate aftermath of a deadly school shooting, Republican officials have spent recent years sticking to a familiar playbook. They (1) offer “thoughts and prayers”; (2) say something along the lines of, “This isn’t the time to talk about politics”; and (3) roll out stale culture-war ideas such as regulating video games and pushing state-endorsed religion in public schools.....

But Republican politics in the Trump era has been a little different.

It was earlier this year, for example, when Donald Trump responded to a school shooting in Iowa by urging supporters to “move forward,” adding his belief that people “have to get over it.”

The former president’s comments came to mind after seeing new and related remarks from his 2024 running mate. The Associated Press reported:

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.

.....But Vance nevertheless concluded, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.”

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......In a statement issued soon after Vance’s public comments, the Harris/Walz campaign team issued a written statement that read, “Yesterday, Vice President Harris said ‘it doesn’t have to be this way’ in response to another senseless school shooting. Donald Trump and JD Vance think school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and ‘we have to get over it.’

“Vice President Harris and Governor Walz know we can take action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Donald Trump and JD Vance will choose the NRA and gun lobby over our children. That is the choice in this election.”

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. The Harris Walz campaign just released this SCATHING statement on JD Vance calling school shootings a "fact of life."

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[Walleye]

2. When Republicans talk about transgender issues, or being woke. They always refer to "our children"

When children are murdered in school, they say things like, well that’s too bad those children way over there got shot, but we have to sacrifice them so we can keep bullshitting about guns. Likely because that’s where they get their funding

[delisen]

3. Vance is helpless and hopeless but want to run our country.

If he were ever to be in charge we could all be killed.

[moondust]

4. Who's gonna tell him?

Other countries don't have this problem on anywhere near the scale of the U.S. so it is clearly NOT a ‘fact of life’.

[tanyev]

5. IVF is bad because frozen embryos are children,

but the slaughter of children at school is a “fact of life”.

[DFW]

6. More like a fact of death, it seems to me

Not that a Republican would notice the difference, mind you

[struggle4progress]

7. "With all these school shootings, we need women to have more kids"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. JD Vance says school shootings are just a "fact of life,"... as he hides behind bullet proof glass.

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[ck4829]

9. Disgusting