JD Vance: JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security.
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. “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.”
The Ohio senator was asked by a journalist what can be done to stop school shootings. He said further restricting access to guns, as many Democrats advocate, won’t end them, noting they happen in states with both lax and strict gun laws. He touted efforts in Congress to give schools more money for security.
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But 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. We’ve got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.”
To which I can only note this from The Onion that we have all seen over and over (and over and over) again: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
It is unequivocally the case that other countries do not have this problem and it is because of public policy choices made in those countries.
While I am pleased to read the following via CNN: The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say, it isn’t enough. The father appears to have acted recklessly, purchasing the weapon for his son even after law enforcement had investigated the child for making concerning threats online.
Colin Gray told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present. The timeline the teen’s father provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his family to investigate school shooting threats made online.
And by the way, yes, right now is the time to be talking about public policy.
Meanwhile, yesterday a friend’s son spent much of the day in lockdown in Enterprise, AL. Via WDHN: No charges can be filed against student found with ‘large bag’ ammunition at Enterprise High, DA says.
Enterprise High School and the Enterprise Career and Technology Center went on lockdown for a little over an hour Thursday morning after police say ammunition was found on campus.
Enterprise Police said the “large bag” of ammo was found in the backpack of a student by School Resource Officers at EHS after another student tipped off the officers.
According to Enterprise Police Chief Micheal Moore, three students were detained while searching the premises but were released.
No charges have been filed, because it isn’t against the law to bring a bag full of ammo to campus, despite the obvious disruption this caused.
“We have scoured the books. I have talked to our coordinating agency, the Office of Prosecution Services. The Attorney General’s Office,” said DA Tarbox. “Based upon the facts and circumstances that we know right now, I am not aware of a criminal charge that is applicable from merely carrying ammunition, regardless of where that ammunition was located.”
Tarbox said the student would face internal disciplinary action at the school.
I am sure it is a relief to all the parents who had to deal with such a lockdown the day after a mass shooting in a school in the state next door.
