Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe."

Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a “fact of life” and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.

Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vance’s comments against them.

“Kamala’s interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,” Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.”

Except Harris’ campaign shared the same video.

Here’s what Vance had to say:

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he 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.”

Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”

All of that was in what Harris’ campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didn’t say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.

  • The Pantser
    46•10 days ago

    “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.”

    The psychos are the students! What school is gonna prevent a student from walking in? If you are intended to be inside the building there will never be enough security to keep killers out when the killer is already in the building. They would have to start cavity searching students because if they want to shoot up the school they would find a way.

    The only solution is LESS guns available!

    • @VolkdittyEnglish
      16•10 days ago

      Cavity searching the students is genuinely their recommendation.

    • ShadowRam
      11•10 days ago

      “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.”

      I guess no one remembers the fire alarm fiasco… March 24, 1998

      https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/westside-school-shooting-3717/

      • rigattiEnglish
        19•10 days ago

        We need more of that, but we also need less availability of guns.

        • @Serinus
          12•10 days ago

          They’re charging the dad again here.

          I don’t think that’s appropriate for every case, but when the parent provides access to an AR-15 with a child that has shown clear signs of mental instability… yeah, that’s negligent homicide.

          • The Pantser
            6•10 days ago

            I think every parent of a school shooter should be charged. Kids can’t buy a gun without being old enough and if they go black market where did the kid get the cash? I don’t let my kids hold onto enough cash to buy a gun, it goes in our joint bank account so I’ll know if they withdraw it. When they are 18 we will sign it over to them.

            There are so many things a reasonable parent can do that a neglectful parent doesn’t. Also know who your kids friends are, meet them, meet the parents, judge them, judge the parents and the kids harshly. It’s your right as a parent to keep your kids safe. If they are in a bad crowd then do something. Change their school, report any and all suspicions that you have, follow your kids if they go out alone. I know its overbearing and your kids may hate it but it’s your ass on the line if they shoot up a school or theater.

        • justOnePersistentKbinPlease
          3•10 days ago

          Poverty no, fascism, you can help those most vulnerable to believing it get the help they need so they are no longer suspectible to it.

          • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
            2•10 days ago

            i mean, technically they aren’t wrong, even the most educated and intelligent people are still susceptible to fascism, that’s why it works.

    • Maeve
      3•10 days ago

      More than that. Attendance is mandatory (as it should be).