Vance Once Referred to School Shootings as a 'Fact of Life' — But Context Is Crucial
Vance Once Referred to School Shootings as a 'Fact of Life' — But Context Is Crucial
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Vance Once Referred to School Shootings as a 'Fact of Life' — But Context Is Crucial
The additional context - he doesn't like that it's a fact of life, but ofc thinks more security/guns in school is the answer. Hmm.
"'How can we stop this?' says the only country where this regularly happens."
It doesn't have to be a fact of life. If it wasn't so easy to fucking do maybe nobody would do it. I remember when I was in middle school we had to go into lockdown because there was a shooter in the high school next door. Wasn't even a student or a parent. Just some random motherfucker that was fucked in the head. Why does it need to be so easy? So gun nuts can go to the shooting range and shoot their assault rifles at targets every other weekend? I get that it's a hobby. But most hobbies don't sacrifice everyone else's safety and get people killed on a daily basis. Just take up fucking knitting or something. Knitting is honestly pretty sick.
There's a lot of historical reasons why we can't just snap our fingers and magically eliminate gun posession in the US, plus an incredibly small population of people living out in the wilder spaces of the US who have legitimate need for them in terms of protection of themselves and farm animals from wildlife.
The main issue though is that the cat has been out of the bag for so long, there's not really any way to claw guns back from the public's hands without costly military intervention on our own soil, which is political suicide.
We could apply our creativity to find loads of ways to meaningfully chip away at the problem.
If we valued kids' lives more than our little gun cult.
Which we obviously don't because we sit here and throw up our hands like this instead of thinking of ways it could happen. And what's worse, we try to pretend that that's being reasonable.