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JD Vance Calls School Shootings ‘a Fact of Life’
Really? Does this mean the rest of the world is living in a fairytale?
When Donald Trump’s dopey and eternally weird running mate, JD Vance, heard about the shooting at the high school in Georgia, he did what all brain-dead right-wingers do: He offered up “thoughts and prayers.”
No one needs those thoughts, and while there is nothing wrong with praying, prayer alone won’t solve this crisis. He then said the following:
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Mr. Vance said, adding that he believed gun restrictions were not the way to effectively prevent school shootings. “We have got to bolster security in our schools (A Grim Fact of Life).”
Facts of Life
There is reality. The pop-pop-pop of gunfire piercing the early-morning fog in which many teenage students live out their mornings fretting the uncertainties of adolescence: Did he see me? Why didn’t she wave at me? Am I fat? Does anyone notice the zit on my face? What will I do if my parents divorce?
Wait, what was that? Was that a…(the pops grow louder, and muffled screams can be heard outside in the hallway somewhere nearby.)
