Vance laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ in the US as he calls for more security
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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday lamented that school shootings in the US have become “a fact of life” and called for greater security at schools in the wake of the school shooting in Winder, Georgia, that left four people dead earlier this week.
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday lamented that school shootings in the US have become “a fact of life” and called for greater security at schools in the wake of the shooting in Winder, Georgia, that left four people dead earlier this week. “I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re, 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,” Vance said at a campaign event in Phoenix in response to a question from CNN on what specific policies he supports to end school shootings. As the audience applauded, Vance continued, “We’ve got to bolster security, so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to. And again, as a parent, do I want my kids’ school to have additional security? No, of course, I don’t. I don’t want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you’ve got to have additional security. But that is increasingly the reality that we live in.” As part of his remarks, Vance also said that strict gun laws are not the determining factor in preventing school shootings. “You’ve got some states with very strict gun laws, and you’ve got some states, they don’t have strict gun laws at all. And the states with strict gun laws, they have a lot of school shootings,” he said. “And the states without strict gun laws, some of them have school shootings, too. So clearly, strict gun laws is not the thing that is going to solve this problem.” Vance also urged the audience to pray for the victims, families and community of Winder.
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