The campaign message here is that the repugs think that shootings are a fact of life and we should just get over it and move on whenever they happen.

Snipers? Check
Obvious Agents? Check
Thick Glass? Check

a grim reality that has evolved since the GOP and NRA elevated guns to God status.

Their golden calf is made of molten gunmetal.

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to dismantle public schools and encourage homeschooling..moms stay at home,and childcare costs go down,no teachers union,no gun restrictions..

We can revert all the way back to covered wagons and little couch on the prairie.

He does...fuck himself... every time he opens his pie hole.

With a powerful weapon, his beautiful children. Typical Republican thinks his kids are more important than other people’s. Can’t possibly imagine grief. These other parents are going through His only solution is more violence. This is their party now. Here’s a new slogan for you, children over party. Of course they can’t even tell you what children really are. They think any cluster of fertilized ovum is a child.

Until it's born, then it's just target practice.

Is that what you mean JD?

Lots of facts of life for JD - like 60% of Americans think you can go fuck yourself.

School shootings are not a fact of life in sane countries.

Vance is talking about "facing reality?!"

He should send that message to Trump.

JD is pretty much saying, "It's an irritation, like poison ivy. Get over it."

Whatever will be,...

Will be......

Nothing we could or should do about it,... it is God's Will.

I don't see that changing.

did it by executive order, you nitwit!

“ Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks
BY MICHAEL BALSAMO
Published 4:07 PM CDT, December 18, 2018”

https://apnews.com/article/6c1af80fb290472c89fb930e223505af

That never goes wrong ever. The real problem is that these gun free zones don't have enough guns. The answer is more guns.





Since Vance wants us to accept the unacceptable, let's win enough seats in a blue wave to change it.

Well, except when it isn't

Uvalde had three-hundred seventy-six law enforcement officers
held at-bay by one 18-yr-old with an AR-15-style rifle

So, nope
Left-swipe
We know what works. We know what doesn't.
First of all, get JD to shut the f--k up

And believe him, he is serious!

What is Charlton Heston's line at the end of the Planet of the Apes?

Oh yeah!

“You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”

Some people just want to blow up America, one school shooting at a time.
And smile while they are watching it on the news.

"From my cold dead hands".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Heston#NRA_president

He's dead so let's go for it. "Oh yeah!"

to account for ho-hum no-big-deal school massacres? Now I can begin to comprehend the type of reasoning where Vance bemoans "childless cat ladies" not doing their part to ensure that there is "no net loss" following a never-ending succession of school mass shootings. Simple population math to remedy an inconvenient "fact of life"!

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# Country Number of School Shootings
1 United States of America 288
2 Mexico 8
3 South Africa 6
4 India 5
5 Nigeria 4
6 Pakistan 4
7 Afghanistan 3
8 Brazil 2
9 Canada 2
10 France 2
11 Azerbaijan 1
12 Estonia 1
13 Germany 1
14 Greece 1
15 Hungary 1
16 Kenya 1
17 People's Republic of China 1
18 Russia 1
19 Turkey 1
20 Argentina 0
21 Australia 0
22 Italy 0
23 Japan 0
24 Netherlands 0
25 Spain 0
26 Switzerland 0
27 United Kingdom 0

I appreciate you efforts.

To hear JD Vance tell it, deadly school shootings, such as this week's tragedy in Georgia, are "a fact of life.” The comments generated swift pushback.

Link to tweet

Weird.

is reaction. If for no other reason, not the guy I want trying to get along with belligerent nations and their psycho leaders.

...I suggest an idea from Pablo Casals:



Like souls awakening, children raised to treat others with love and kindness will grow to discover and appreciate their own remarkable and unique natures. And while Casals never had biological children of his own, to express the above sentiment shows that he sure loved kids.

What country do we live in? Couple more pieces of glass and he could officially be the turd in the punch bowl!

We don't have to deal with that being a fact of life. We have to change the reality.

Fuck you and the horse you rode in on and your bulletproof glass and your weird shiftiness and your insane, misogynistic views and everything about you and that perspective.

Oh, and off topic, but fuck Governor Kemp too for being a coward and not having a published email address so I can send him a piece of my mind too on this. My kid shouldn't have to be scared to go to school.

Link to tweet

...like Meidas or the Lincoln Project should really satirize Vance with one of those SNL-style "cold open" fake ads using the Facts of Life TV show theme. I can just hear it now...

We'll stop talking about childless cat ladies now, so he accomplished something.

you jackass. I do not like anything about you but I will be nice enough to remind you that you are playing on the big field. Take good precautions because not all your nut job followers will like everything you say.

Try solving this problem for ALL of us who do not deserve to have to be fearful all the time or possibly lose those dear to us.

Keep your smart ass responses to yourself.

I grew up! Where I lived, the guys used to come to school with gun racks in the back windows of their trucks and guns in them. I don’t think they ever thought of killing anyone with them. So, what changed in America, that now this is so common? We had bullies back then too. What is the catalyst that changed everyone’s responses to each other?

Social media and I believe the advent of video games had a lot to do with it.

Every industrialized country has video games. A lot of them (e.g. Japan) have much more intense video game cultures than the US.

Our children see violence on television, games, movies, continually. Then there is that other thing which drives me nuts, they see all the violence, but on the news, they always blur out the reality, the results of that violence. The blood, the deaths are kept hidden because it might offend our delicate sensitivities. I don’t think the reality ever really sinks in to anyone’s mind. Other nations are not having this problem, why are we the only ones? We are doing something wrong, whether we like it or not. What do we do that is different? It may not be the video games themselves, but something that goes along with it.

OK, so let's deal with it.
You can change reality if you want to; if you have the will to do what it takes; if you give a shit about all those dead and wounded people you can fix the problem.
Obviously, Just Dumb Vance is a big NO on all of this.

Anyone who thinks 60 dead people, killed by a person using a AR-15 with a bump stock, is just a "huge distraction" has a callous disregard for life. What the fuck is it we are being distracted from?

And he believes he's pro-life. F**k him.

and the impact that the bullets have on human bodies.

I do believe we would hear the velcro-like sound of many parents peeling away from voting republican in November.

Everywhere else it is a rare thing and not a fact of life at all.

instead of more laws.

They have begun (terrible word in this context) their lives as teachers.

At what point is our country inhospitable? MineralMan had a thread about being prepared with proper documentation for travel and voting should it be needed.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19422144

I would add inhospitable.

This shit ain't normal and we know it.

GO TO SCHOOL IN THEIR BURIAL ROBES?

END THIS FUCKIN MADNESS
BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS

AND VANCE

(sorry about the caps, I am smoking mad)

no, no, no, no!

They are not "just" a fact of life anywhere else in the world. As Joe Biden said, how can we say we're the greatest nation on earth when mass murder is routine?!

I hope he catches lots and lots of shit for this statement

He is a bought and paid for idiot.

hopefully a lot of others will,too.

With an eternal and especially sharp , and uncomfortably tight ,cilice belt as an uncomfortable reminder.

It will be served up by The People on Nov 5.

Then will Thiel have anything to do with him? Probably not. He'll be on his own.

among thieves.

Bet 2$ the ' holy man - baloney - owed money, maybe construction $ etc.. who knows. Shameful as they go.

Link to tweet

School shootings weren't "a fact of life" when I went to school and we had the occasional pickup with a gun in a gun rack at our HS. These progun idiots worshiping murder machines.

Like they were in Uvalde?

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/20/uvalde-police-shooting-response-records

Do you think the FIX news outlets show JD looking bad on the regular?

If the civil war starts, is it over when Hannity's head is on a pike next to TSF or what?

the prerogative of the powerful to change, or to dictate, reality and that everyone else must struggle the best we can under those conditions.

He's an asshole.

School shootings were not a fact of life until recently, which makes them not a fact of life, but a fact of poor cultural, and ultimately ideological choices.

Said Vance's comment was taken out of context...

How Many Guns in America?
In 2017, there was estimated to be near 400 million guns in the United States between police, the military, and American civilians. Over 393 Million (Over 98%) of those guns are in civilian hands, the equivalent of 120 firearms per 100 citizens.

https://americangunfacts.com/gun-ownership-statistics/

It is estimated there are more that 20 million AR type rifles in the US.

women can just give birth to more. After all, he thinks that is all women are good for. I loathe that monster.