You've seen somewhere that VP candidate Sen. Vance called the Georgia school shooting "a fact of life" and heard people screech how awful he was. As a COTTonLINE reader you should read what he actually said, and John Kass has Vance's actual words.
If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it. 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. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. 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 so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children they’re not able.
That is what J.D. Vance actually said. Do you find anything there to disagree with? He's saying let's begin with where we find ourselves and try to make it better, or at least less bad. Hardening the target isn't rocket science, it's common sense. That's exactly what Vance advocated.
As a society we refuse to lock up our insane and confiscating our guns is literally unconstitutional so it won't happen any time soon. That's where we are now. However much you may dislike our here and now reality, at least admit it to be true. As an aside, countries which have confiscated guns are plagued with "knife crime," multiple stabbings and slashing.
Seriously fencing school grounds and controlling access thereto are good first steps. I admit to mixed feelings about arming school staff, it is worth considering.
Anyway, as the late Paul Harvey liked to say on radio, "that's the rest of the story." The intent of those who took Vance's words out of context was to harm him, not to share his views.
