Yeah, the Harris campaign is twisting what’s been said. He’s admitting that this is a fact of life. Not in the sense of “death and taxes” but this is just what our country is facing in 2024. He’s not wrong. School shootings are a fact of life.
The actual problem I have with his comment is that he’s saying “our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person who wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to”.
Vance, you’re 40 years old. Maybe you don’t remember a time when children didn’t have to worry about people walking around with assault rifles threatening their lives in school. I promise you, it wasn’t that long ago that schools were safe places. Really - I graduated HS in '95. It was the following year that the school posted security on site. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in school today where you literally need to wear bullet proof backpacks. This is the kind of world I think of when I think of the USSR during the Cold War.
Bolstering security at schools is not a solution. It’s a bandaid. You’re not fixing anything (you’ll be a great politician). I really don’t understand why the vast majority of politicians are so poor at solving problems.
Yeah, the Harris campaign is twisting what’s been said. He’s admitting that this is a fact of life. Not in the sense of “death and taxes” but this is just what our country is facing in 2024. He’s not wrong. School shootings are a fact of life.
The actual problem I have with his comment is that he’s saying “our schools are soft targets and we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person who wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to”.
Vance, you’re 40 years old. Maybe you don’t remember a time when children didn’t have to worry about people walking around with assault rifles threatening their lives in school. I promise you, it wasn’t that long ago that schools were safe places. Really - I graduated HS in '95. It was the following year that the school posted security on site. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in school today where you literally need to wear bullet proof backpacks. This is the kind of world I think of when I think of the USSR during the Cold War.
Bolstering security at schools is not a solution. It’s a bandaid. You’re not fixing anything (you’ll be a great politician). I really don’t understand why the vast majority of politicians are so poor at solving problems.
Their biggest donors would rather they didn’t