Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance argued that schools need more security since shootings are now a “fact of life,” per the Associated Press.
During a rally in Phoenix on Thursday (September 5), Vance said we need to be prepared for the “reality we live in” after a shooting at a high school in Georgia earlier this week left four people dead.
“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said Thursday. “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.”
When asked by a journalist what could be done to prevent school shootings, Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, suggested giving schools more money for security. He shut down the notion that restricting access to guns would help the issue.
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” the Ohio senator 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.”