Donald Trumpās running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a āfact of lifeā and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.
Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vanceās comments and called for āaction to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.ā
And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vanceās comments against them.
āKamalaās interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,ā Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. āWatch the full video and youāll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.ā
Except Harrisā campaign shared the same video.
Hereās what Vance had to say:
āI donāt like that this is a fact of life,ā he said. āBut 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. Weāve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children theyāre not able.ā
Vance said he doesnāt like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, ābut thatās increasingly the reality that we live in.ā
All of that was in what Harrisā campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didnāt say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.
I mean, at least part of what he said isnāt technically wrongā¦ School shootings are a āfact of lifeā in America.
And honestly, if weāre not going to address the actual issue, which is guns at a national level, I wouldnāt mind seeing every single school turned into a miniature 1980s Beirut.
Why not? Letās assign a Meal Team Six to every school. Weāll get snipers on the roof, and random strip searches going on in K-12 education.
Maybe we can empower groups of students within each school to be miniature deputies who are tasked with keeping order among the other inmates, I mean students. We can call this the trustee program.
Oh, and by I wouldnāt mind, I mean I would be horrified and it would traumatize at least an entire generation of children before the program was scrapped, but if weāre already on this death drive and refuse to do anything meaningful, a part of me wants to see just how dumb we can really get.