JD Vance says school shootings are a “fact of life”

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/05/jd-vance-says-school-are-a-fact-of-life/

38 Comments

  1. I was a freshman in high school when Columbine happened, and I promise you it wasn’t just a shrug “facts of life” moment for anyone at all. What a fucking asshole this guy is.

  2. A wacko literally missed killing his boss by two inches just a month ago.

    Nothing you can you do to stop that!

  3. caseyanthonyftw on

    Sure as shit wouldn’t be saying that if it was him or his family. Fuck people like this.

  4. YinTanTetraCrivvens on

    Speaking as someone who has lived in multiple countries that are not America, NO THEY ARE NOT.

  5. johnfromberkeley on

    Yeah, just like climate change and all the other problems that Republicans create and then play dumb.

  6. Wonderful-Variation on

    School shootings only became “a fact of life” because Republicans have consistently blocked any measure intended to stop them.

    It didn’t have to be this way. We could have chosen a different path.

  7. Its so weird that school shootings are extremely rare everywhere else in the world.

    Wonder why.

    “pro-life” party btw

  8. Kids dying by the hundreds in school shootings is the outcome that Republicans have engineered over several decades. They do not want a change.

    Creating an atmosphere of fear in public schools leads to the three outcomes they want most: 1. Reduce or eliminate public education’s effectiveness. 2. Transfer public funds to private schools for profit. 3. Indoctrinate children with Christian fundamentalism.

    There is nothing else as important to Republicans as dead kids in public schools. They will never do anything to combat this.

  9. Yousoggyyojimbo on

    I don’t know how much more clear this dude could be about how little he gives a fuck about any other human being.

    Like every 20 hours or so there’s a new comment about him just being completely flippant about real world problems or talking about an entire demographic like they are property

  10. pinetreesgreen on

    There’s a great photo of him making a speech while hiding behind a wall of bulletproof glass.

  11. As teachers, Tim & Gwen Walz are in a unique position to address the inhumanity of accepting school murders as a daily “fact of life”.

    JD Vance could conceivably be President Vance in the near future, given Trump’s age and health. Imagine the leader of the free world being so cavalier about schoolchildren being slaughtered.

  12. revmaynard1970 on

    the gop finally admit they see no problems with children dying in schools from gun violence

  13. Distinct_Meringue on

    That’s weird, they aren’t a fact of life for over 95% of the global population. It’s only a fact of life in one country, why is that JD?

  14. I dare that asshole to fly out to Georgia right now and say it the grieving community’s face.

  15. This is the most egregious thing a politician could say. It is actually making me tear up to think this would ever be a representative’s stance on the murder of children. 

  16. glitzvillechamp on

    I can’t fucking believe this piece of shit said this. I am seriously fucking speechless.

  17. I can tell you this right now, if Trump loses, a large part of that is gonna be because of Vance. Stilted, horrible, awkward as hell PR videos, especially compared to Walz. The disgusting comments towards women and children constantly, the absolute flip-flopping on “America’s Hitler,” “Kamala can go to hell” etc. He’s absolutely awful, and I don’t even know if that many Conservatives like him. They love Trump, but Vance? Not really.

    He’s worse than Palin, 100%.

    I think even Pro-Gun people who don’t believe in gun reform can still look at this quote and say it’s gross. Children and teachers being murdered in schools shouldn’t be a “fact of life.”

  18. JD Vance shares other Republicans’ psychopathic belief that gun rights are more important than children’s rights. Let’s make sure that he never sees the inside of the White House again.

  19. JD Vance: School shootings are a fact of life. End of story. It’s just a fluke that they all happen to be in America.  Nothing we can do about it. 

    Brought to you by the “pro life” republican VP nominee. 

  20. So to be clear one party running says school shootings are “a fact of life” and “we need to get over it” while the other says “it doesn’t have to be like this.”

    Yep it’s real hard to figure out who cares about us.

  21. Murdered children is just the price we have to pay so insecure white men can have their toys to relish in their power fantasies.

  22. Every time this guy opens his mouth he says something egregiously offensive. No politician should ever consider children shooting each other with assault rifles as ‘a fact of life’.

  23. What badass thing for JD Vance to say behind his shield of bulletproof glass, flanked by multiple secret service agents and snipers.

  24. Vance says school shootings are a way of life. Trump says we need to get over it.
    Do these idiots even think?

  25. sharingsilently on

    I served as the disaster manager to re-open a school after a shooting. If you’ve not been face to face with the parents and kids from a shooting, I promise you have no idea how horrendous this is.

    Our Media sanitizes this. If we showed the dropped books and laptops, the overturned desks, the bullet holes in the walls, the blood — and then the shattered lives years later… it would make a difference. The impact expands and expands from the living and the dead.

    Damn the Republicans to hell and back again for pushing assault weapons into every part of America. There is no explanation except that they want kids killed. Vote them into oblivion.

    Our children should not go to school EVERY DAY worried that they are not coming home.

    Edit: clarity

  26. He said this while standing behind bulletproof shields, with several guards ready to jump in front of any attempt to shoot him.

    FUCK HIM.