In the wake of another school shooting that left two students and two teachers dead at at Apalachee High School in Georgia, Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance said gun reform legislation is not the solution, and instead wants to bolster security at schools. ABC15 spoke with Vance ahead of his rally at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix on Thursday, where he talked about border security and immigration.
“Our schools we know have become soft targets for people who want to make a statement and kill a lot of people and that means we need more security at our schools,” Vance told ABC15. “If you pass gun reform legislation, that doesn’t cut down on school shootings you haven’t accomplished anything, if you actually make those schools a little bit safer, beef up the security I think that’s a much greater chance of actually working.”
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A school resource officer stopped the shooter at Apalachee High School, but he was still able to bring a gun on campus and kill 4 people and injure nine others before being brought into custody. When asked if he would support any type of gun reform legislation, Vance said, “The question is not whether a solution is going to be perfect, I think the question is whether a solution cuts down on gun violence in our schools.”