Janice R. Andrews
To show his sadness over the ongoing problem of school killings, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance called them a terrible “fact of life” at a gathering in Phoenix on Thursday. His words came after a terrible killing in Georgia earlier this week that killed four people. Vance said that the U.S. should focus on making schools safer to stop things like this from happening again.
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be ready for it,” Vance told a crowd. The truth is that we live in it, not because we like it, but because it is. We need to handle it.
Vance was asked by a reporter how to stop school killings and said that he didn’t trust gun control measures. He said that shootings happen in places with tight and lax gun rules, which suggests that making it harder to get guns might not solve the problem completely. Instead, he pushed for more money to be spent on school security in Congress, which he thought was a better way to keep kids safe.
Vance said again, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.” “But if you’re crazy and want to make news, you know that our schools are easy prey.” We need to make our schools safer so that a crazy person can’t just walk in and kill a bunch of kids.
Vance, an Ohio senator, said that he didn’t like sending his own kids to schools with a lot of security, but he knew that it was becoming more and more necessary. He made it clear that keeping kids safe from harm should be the most important thing.
He also talked about the recent shooting in Georgia, calling it a “awful tragedy” and sending his prayers and condolences to the families who lost loved ones.
Vance’s comments are different from those of Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris, who wants stricter gun laws. Harris is in charge of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. He has backed both stricter gun laws and better school safety, including a ban on AR-15 weapons.
Even though school shootings are still a problem in the U.S., the fight over how to best stop them is still very heated, with candidates like Vance and Harris giving very different ideas.
