Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe."

Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Georgia that the massacres are sadly a “fact of life” and offered ways to fortify schools to make them safer against gun violence.

Kamala Harris put out a statement with Vance’s comments and called for “action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals.”

And it appeared to strike a nerve with team Trump that she used Vance’s comments against them.

“Kamala’s interns just released a statement pushing FAKE NEWS,” Trump War Room posted to X with its more than 2 million followers. “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said. These morons do nothing but lie every single day.”

Except Harris’ campaign shared the same video.

Here’s what Vance had to say:

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” he 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.”

Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”

All of that was in what Harris’ campaign shared with her joint statement on the shooting with running mate Tim Walz. Vance said what team Trump said Vance didn’t say and accused the Harris campaign of distorting.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    2 months ago

    I like how they say “Watch the full video and you’ll clearly see that JD Vance does not say what they claim he said", knowing that the full video does the opposite, but their fans will never bother clicking on it.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      401·
      2 months ago

      Maybe the video needs a thumbnail of some open mouthed guy pointing at something. At least thats what virtually all of youtube thinks makes idiots watch their vids.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        Children watch a ton of YouTube videos. So sadly, all the most annoying stuff exists because it works to get them to click…

    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      2 months ago

      Kamala posted sections of the full video, of course showing the bad comments from Vance. Trump posted only once section, but says watch the full video, while claiming all Kamala and her team do is lie. I’m actually trying to find the full speech and can’t. Pretty annoying since you know Trumpers will say Kamala is lying

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    662·
    2 months ago

    Vance said he doesn’t like the idea of his own kids going to a school with hardened security, “but that’s increasingly the reality that we live in.”

    Only in America. Weird that ‘reality’ ignores all other first world nations.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
        18·
        2 months ago

        The definition of a first world country includes being a “stable democracy”.

        If you ask Americans how likely they believe attempts at election fraud will happen in the 2024 election I would be shocked if less than 80% said “very likely”. That is not a stable democracy.

    • El_guapazo@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 months ago

      His kids are not in public school or in any sort of danger from a school shooter. Else he’d actually do something about it

    • rayyy@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      In the US the oligarchs worry about models of profitability like keeping wages dirt low, profits sky high and workers at each other’s throats rather than proven models of success like universal health care and sensible gun control employed by Europe and first world countries worldwide…

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
    461·
    2 months ago

    “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.”

    The psychos are the students! What school is gonna prevent a student from walking in? If you are intended to be inside the building there will never be enough security to keep killers out when the killer is already in the building. They would have to start cavity searching students because if they want to shoot up the school they would find a way.

    The only solution is LESS guns available!

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 months ago

          They’re charging the dad again here.

          I don’t think that’s appropriate for every case, but when the parent provides access to an AR-15 with a child that has shown clear signs of mental instability… yeah, that’s negligent homicide.

          • The Pantser@lemmy.world
            71·
            2 months ago

            I think every parent of a school shooter should be charged. Kids can’t buy a gun without being old enough and if they go black market where did the kid get the cash? I don’t let my kids hold onto enough cash to buy a gun, it goes in our joint bank account so I’ll know if they withdraw it. When they are 18 we will sign it over to them.

            There are so many things a reasonable parent can do that a neglectful parent doesn’t. Also know who your kids friends are, meet them, meet the parents, judge them, judge the parents and the kids harshly. It’s your right as a parent to keep your kids safe. If they are in a bad crowd then do something. Change their school, report any and all suspicions that you have, follow your kids if they go out alone. I know its overbearing and your kids may hate it but it’s your ass on the line if they shoot up a school or theater.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent. His parents divorced when he was a toddler. After Bowman was adopted by his mother’s third husband, Bob Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father’s name while using an uncle’s name to preserve his nickname, JD.

  • ravhall@discuss.online
    25·
    2 months ago

    “People get shot at, look at Donny! Fuck I love this country!”

    Delivered behind bullet proof glass with an armed team of mercenaries.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Mercenaries get paid. The guy standing around trump are just normal idiots with mercenary ambitions.

  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
    318·
    2 months ago

    he’s already said, “we have to get over it.” how is that so much worse than “it’s a fact of life.” ?

    they’re both fucking ghouls who cheer on the arms industries whether they’re tearing through Palestine or american schools, really what’s the difference?

    edit: to clarify, I mean what’s the difference between these two statements - why all the amplified outrage now?

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Once again, a maga/Republican is in trouble for saying out loud what they all believe.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I mean, I too hate that this is normal. Sending kids to school in prisons just isn’t my solution.

  • whome@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    2 months ago

    But don’t they want to make America great again and bring it to a place back in time when there were no school shootings because everything was so great? I thought that was their whole platform?!

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
      4·
      2 months ago

      Clearly this is all because of the litter boxes. That’s the cause of the rise in school shootings.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    His cultists are locked in they don’t hear this stuff and if they did they don’t care. Sad state of affairs