With kudos to Parker Molloy, here's JD Vance continuing to search for the bottom of the barrel he's scraping (and please, don't anyone tell him there is none):
Another school shooting? Shrug. Just a fact of life. So, let’s make schools into fortresses or something, as a way of dealing with this fact of life. Which, of course, for some inexplicable reason, isn’t a fact of life in any other nation.
And here’s The Onion.
Note the date — that’s over ten years ago. And Congressional Republicans and their Supreme Court continue to prevent the Democrats from enacting gun regulations that are widely popular. As would JD Vance.
UPDATE:
The AP changed their headline to reflect that Vance “laments” this “fact of life.” Here’s the quote from the linked article:
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. “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.”...
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But 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. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”
So, not a full shrug, more an insidious concern troll shrug. After all, Donald Trump said after a previous school shooting, “we have to get over it.” Facts of life, after all.
A real leader sees it differently. Kamala Harris:
It doesn’t have to be this way.
So, not a fact of life. Not necessarily the reality that we have to live in.
But JD Vance doesn’t really have any interest in dealing with the reality that we live in. Because “psychos” aren’t exclusive to the United States. Schools being soft targets is not exclusive to the United States. But school shootings being what Vance calls a fact of life is exclusive to the United States. Because of the callous inaction and obstruction of Vance and his Republican colleagues. Because they care more about guns than they care about people. And until they are so politically marginalized that they no longer have any say, the United States will remain the only nation where this regularly happens.
