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submitted 2 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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The 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 we’ve 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 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.”

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[-] nullthegrey@gamepad.club 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@tardigrada Their solution will be to turn the schools into fortresses, which the pretty much already are, and this still continues to happen. And it won't address workplace and public mass shootings.

The problem is a comprehensive mental health crisis, and readily available killing machines.

Have a look at what is required to amend the constitution and see why I am saying we're stuck where we are now on the topic of gun control.

[-] nullthegrey@gamepad.club 2 points 2 months ago

@tardigrada Don't mistake any of this for me saying "we shouldn't try", of course we should. This needs to be a topic of conversation always, maybe the needle will slowly move.

But as long as you've got a large portion of the country in love with stockpiling firearms and ammunition, and a mental health crisis to go with it, this will continue to happen and politicians will continue to wring their hands.

[-] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

You’re talking about people who love their guns more than children, so I don’t know how there’s any reasoning with that mentality.

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