Since school shootings happen, vice presidential nominee JD Vance says to accept them as a “fact of life.â€
What other “facts of life†would Vance accept? Let’s see his advice for past problems. What about leaded gasoline? He’d accept lead pollution as a “fact of life.†Would his advice would be, move on?
Republicans claimed seat belts, air bags and catalytic converters would sink the auto market. They didn't. Before these things, people died unnecessarily from accidents and polluted air. Since accident and pollution were “facts of life,†Vance would presumably have let them slide.
Vance needs real facts. It is a fact that school shootings occur; however, his tag-phrase “of life†dismisses them. It is fact of life, for example, that we must die. It is not a “fact of life†that children must die by gun violence.
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Vance is wrong. He was wrong in dismissing childless women as “cat ladies.†He was wrong to say Ohio citizens from Haiti eat house pets.
It’s not a “fact of life†that Vance will constantly get things wrong, but he’s working on it.
John Atherton
Dover, N.H.