And conservative media/users are now claiming that that’s not what he said…
FYI – saying “you don’t like that school shootings are fact of life” is not better than saying “school shootings are fact of life”.
Both things are saying that you believe we can’t fix the problem.
Chemical_Elephant236 on
Absolutely despicable!Vance’s comments are beyond belief.We should never normalize such tragedies.Walz is spot on – we must stand together against gun violence.Let’s work towards a safer future, not accept senseless loss as a ‘fact of life.
beckthetailor on
The only reason a Republican politician cares if you live or die is if it helps him line his pockets.
ser_pounce1 on
Because Vance is pathetic. I’m so sick of the perverse interpretation of the second amendment. It’s the liberty of the PEOPLE as a group, not a person. The militia is the national gaud and if you don’t believe me look at what was considered common law in the majority of states prior to 1850. Carrying unusual weapons outside the home (pistols and large knives) was unlawful. Even comparatively recently in 1959, 60 percent of Americans wanted to ban hand guns. How far we have fallen into madness.
It feel like every time Vance opens his mouth, he says the worst possible thing he could.
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I’m less concerned about acknowledging that with 384 mass shootings in 2024, gun violence is a fact of American life, than I am with the talking point that what we need to do is harden the schools.
I do not agree that what my children need is additional training on how to cower in fear, or that the school faculty should be expected to provide security.
These assholes always say it’s a matter of better security and mental health. The fact of life as they’d have it is that gun owners have an absolute right to cause the rest of us to live in fear.
Cephalopod_astronaut on
Vance was speaking behind a bulletproof barrier when he said that school shootings are “a fact of life.”
nice-view-from-here on
Republican policy on gun violence:
Vance: *”That’s life.”*
Trump: *”During my four years nothing happened. And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn’t yield.”*
Dereliction of duty and responsibility. Cluelessness. Indifference. Surrender. **Apathy.**
Republican policy on child care:
Vance: *”Let grandma and grandpa babysit.”*
Trump: *Long meaningless ramble.*
Dereliction of duty and responsibility. Cluelessness. Indifference. Surrender. **Apathy.**
Republicans just don’t care and don’t want anything done about anything unless it has to do with your private organs. Then they’re all in.
Tretis_Cranberry on
This guy is such a fucking loser.
Tretis_Cranberry on
JD Vance is a man without conviction. I guess that’s why he aligned himself with Don-Old who happens to have 34 of them.
Edit: credit is due to Governor Andy Beshear for the original quote. Apologies. I am a sleep deprived mother of an 11 week old and couldn’t remember where I had read this.
BringOn25A on
Yep, they only care about the unborn, not the born.
IdDeIt on
It *is* pathetic. Resigning yourself to a horrible fate is what the weakest cowards do, not someone fit to lead. No vision for improving the world
gatsby712 on
Walz was willing to go into the combat zone of school, while Vance was sitting in his air conditioned office writing PR.
inagartendevito on
Walz has a gift for using the correct adjective
TheJedibugs on
Maybe he could learn to accept that childless women, trans people and abortion are just facts of life?
IronBeatnik on
Assholes traded in the ivory tower for a glass booth.
Orang_ina on
Vance is the greatest moron…after Trump
druscarlet on
Pathetic is kind. Bat sh@t crazy would also be kind. He is a loathsome POS.
BoobootheDude on
Not just pathetic, it is weakness and cowardice. He is either to lazy of too scared to put in the work required.. for well… of… a high office.
Lawn_Orderly on
>Vance’s comments were the latest Republican pitch to voters about bolstering security at schools instead of passing broadly popular gun control reforms, such as universal background checks—backed by 86% of Americans in McCourtney Institute for Democracy survey last year—and banning the sale of semi-automatic and automatic weapons, the guns of choice for mass shooters due to their ability to rapidly fire multiple rounds of ammunition without reloading. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters support that kind of ban, according to the same poll.
As Walz said, pathetic.
Otherwise_Variety719 on
Funny how the GOP are always happy to tell you that you need to accept school shootings from behind protective glass.
Just-Signature-3713 on
I get the impression Walz has been light hearted so far but can get vicious if required
Sparky90032 on
JD Weirdo Vance – the gift that keeps on giving.
Harris for President!
overbarking on
Only in the US.
rfs103181 on
What he meant was, these things happen, man, as long as we have freedom to have totally unnecessary guns. I did a study and it turns out, 99.7% of these type of gun owners have a lack of self-esteem and most suffer from microphallus syndrome. Sad statement on the good ole US of A.
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At the beginning of each class, my son has to turn over his cell phone to be put in a pouch. Yesterday, he told me he’s worried he’ll need it in case of an emergency and will be unable to retrieve it. I then realized I’m more concerned about his ability to call 911 or even text a goodbye message than whether or not he passes his classes.
I just can’t imagine what it’s like for students in this day and age. It would be like working for a company that has mass shootings at different branches across the country multiple times a year. It happened to your peer, but you’re expected to go on as if nothing happened.
Yet you’ve got people wondering why kids are less social and go out less? Maybe because they grew up with active shooter drills and the deep knowledge that mass shootings have happened in every environment a person encounters. Clubs? Yes. Church? Yes. Schools? Yes. Grocery stores, malls, and parking lots? Yes, yes, and yes. I wouldn’t leave the house, either, if I spent my formative years at school being taught to duck behind doors.
justfortherofls on
Small pox used to be a fact of life too.
Zippier92 on
Pathetic and evil.
Worth putting the evil in there- truthful and barbed!
BannedAgainDude on
We protect Wall Street and unborn fetuses, but you’re on your own for the rest.
hoIygrail on
Quit not liking that it is a fact of life, when it absolutely doesn’t have to be a fact of life. This is a United States problem. We can make changes to fix it.
Malachite_Edge on
Vance is a disgusting resemblance of a human being. He’s into mid-evil Christian torture practices obviously that went away with the dark ages or have we re-entered the modern dark ages?
WackyAndCorny on
As an outsider, I sit here across the pond thinking about Hungerford and Dunblane and Port Arthur, and I find myself wondering what it __will__ take for America to talk seriously and openly about giving up some of the guns.
Will it come to a point where the masses come together and decide that, whilst it is perfectly acceptable “Constitutionally” to own a firearm, it might actually be Un-American to do so?
TheIronMatron on
…from inside a bulletproof enclosure.
lll_RABBIT_lll on
Guys who says that things can’t be fixed expects you to vote for him to fix things?
Don’t they say that the United States is the greatest country in the world and that if you work hard enough you can accomplish anything? Anything except stopping kids from getting shot.
iamcoding on
That Trump managed to find someone who is probably more unlikable than he is is quite the feat.
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And conservative media/users are now claiming that that’s not what he said…
FYI – saying “you don’t like that school shootings are fact of life” is not better than saying “school shootings are fact of life”.
Both things are saying that you believe we can’t fix the problem.
Absolutely despicable!Vance’s comments are beyond belief.We should never normalize such tragedies.Walz is spot on – we must stand together against gun violence.Let’s work towards a safer future, not accept senseless loss as a ‘fact of life.
The only reason a Republican politician cares if you live or die is if it helps him line his pockets.
Because Vance is pathetic. I’m so sick of the perverse interpretation of the second amendment. It’s the liberty of the PEOPLE as a group, not a person. The militia is the national gaud and if you don’t believe me look at what was considered common law in the majority of states prior to 1850. Carrying unusual weapons outside the home (pistols and large knives) was unlawful. Even comparatively recently in 1959, 60 percent of Americans wanted to ban hand guns. How far we have fallen into madness.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
It feel like every time Vance opens his mouth, he says the worst possible thing he could.
I’m less concerned about acknowledging that with 384 mass shootings in 2024, gun violence is a fact of American life, than I am with the talking point that what we need to do is harden the schools.
I do not agree that what my children need is additional training on how to cower in fear, or that the school faculty should be expected to provide security.
These assholes always say it’s a matter of better security and mental health. The fact of life as they’d have it is that gun owners have an absolute right to cause the rest of us to live in fear.
Vance was speaking behind a bulletproof barrier when he said that school shootings are “a fact of life.”
Republican policy on gun violence:
Vance: *”That’s life.”*
Trump: *”During my four years nothing happened. And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn’t yield.”*
Dereliction of duty and responsibility. Cluelessness. Indifference. Surrender. **Apathy.**
Republican policy on child care:
Vance: *”Let grandma and grandpa babysit.”*
Trump: *Long meaningless ramble.*
Dereliction of duty and responsibility. Cluelessness. Indifference. Surrender. **Apathy.**
Republicans just don’t care and don’t want anything done about anything unless it has to do with your private organs. Then they’re all in.
This guy is such a fucking loser.
JD Vance is a man without conviction. I guess that’s why he aligned himself with Don-Old who happens to have 34 of them.
Edit: credit is due to Governor Andy Beshear for the original quote. Apologies. I am a sleep deprived mother of an 11 week old and couldn’t remember where I had read this.
Yep, they only care about the unborn, not the born.
It *is* pathetic. Resigning yourself to a horrible fate is what the weakest cowards do, not someone fit to lead. No vision for improving the world
Walz was willing to go into the combat zone of school, while Vance was sitting in his air conditioned office writing PR.
Walz has a gift for using the correct adjective
Maybe he could learn to accept that childless women, trans people and abortion are just facts of life?
Assholes traded in the ivory tower for a glass booth.
Vance is the greatest moron…after Trump
Pathetic is kind. Bat sh@t crazy would also be kind. He is a loathsome POS.
Not just pathetic, it is weakness and cowardice. He is either to lazy of too scared to put in the work required.. for well… of… a high office.
>Vance’s comments were the latest Republican pitch to voters about bolstering security at schools instead of passing broadly popular gun control reforms, such as universal background checks—backed by 86% of Americans in McCourtney Institute for Democracy survey last year—and banning the sale of semi-automatic and automatic weapons, the guns of choice for mass shooters due to their ability to rapidly fire multiple rounds of ammunition without reloading. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters support that kind of ban, according to the same poll.
As Walz said, pathetic.
Funny how the GOP are always happy to tell you that you need to accept school shootings from behind protective glass.
I get the impression Walz has been light hearted so far but can get vicious if required
JD Weirdo Vance – the gift that keeps on giving.
Harris for President!
Only in the US.
What he meant was, these things happen, man, as long as we have freedom to have totally unnecessary guns. I did a study and it turns out, 99.7% of these type of gun owners have a lack of self-esteem and most suffer from microphallus syndrome. Sad statement on the good ole US of A.
At the beginning of each class, my son has to turn over his cell phone to be put in a pouch. Yesterday, he told me he’s worried he’ll need it in case of an emergency and will be unable to retrieve it. I then realized I’m more concerned about his ability to call 911 or even text a goodbye message than whether or not he passes his classes.
I just can’t imagine what it’s like for students in this day and age. It would be like working for a company that has mass shootings at different branches across the country multiple times a year. It happened to your peer, but you’re expected to go on as if nothing happened.
Yet you’ve got people wondering why kids are less social and go out less? Maybe because they grew up with active shooter drills and the deep knowledge that mass shootings have happened in every environment a person encounters. Clubs? Yes. Church? Yes. Schools? Yes. Grocery stores, malls, and parking lots? Yes, yes, and yes. I wouldn’t leave the house, either, if I spent my formative years at school being taught to duck behind doors.
Small pox used to be a fact of life too.
Pathetic and evil.
Worth putting the evil in there- truthful and barbed!
We protect Wall Street and unborn fetuses, but you’re on your own for the rest.
Quit not liking that it is a fact of life, when it absolutely doesn’t have to be a fact of life. This is a United States problem. We can make changes to fix it.
Vance is a disgusting resemblance of a human being. He’s into mid-evil Christian torture practices obviously that went away with the dark ages or have we re-entered the modern dark ages?
As an outsider, I sit here across the pond thinking about Hungerford and Dunblane and Port Arthur, and I find myself wondering what it __will__ take for America to talk seriously and openly about giving up some of the guns.
Will it come to a point where the masses come together and decide that, whilst it is perfectly acceptable “Constitutionally” to own a firearm, it might actually be Un-American to do so?
…from inside a bulletproof enclosure.
Guys who says that things can’t be fixed expects you to vote for him to fix things?
Don’t they say that the United States is the greatest country in the world and that if you work hard enough you can accomplish anything? Anything except stopping kids from getting shot.
That Trump managed to find someone who is probably more unlikable than he is is quite the feat.