Last Updated on 06/09/2024 by Arun jain
In the morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough to tear into JD VanceHis comment is School shootings are a “fact of life.” Friday said Republican lawmakers are responsible for that “fact.”
GOP lawmakers have dragged their heels on “common sense, basic gun safety laws that the vast majority of Americans support,” Scarborough said. “That’s why this is a fact of life, brought to you by the Republican Party.”
Nearly six in 10 US adults, or 58 percent, favor stricter gun laws, According to In a June 2023 Gallup poll.
Following the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, earlier this week that left four people dead, the Republican vice presidential candidate lamented the frequency of school shootings and called for tighter security at schools to prevent them.
Scarborough’s chastising of his former party was prompted by his co-host Willie Geist, who noted, “In fairness, [Vance’s] The full comment was ‘I don’t like that this is a fact of life.
“Having the school resource officers there, who acted heroically the next day and probably prevented more children and teachers from dying, was not enough to save the four people who died,” Geist said.
A 2021 Study The Violence Project suggests that armed guards in schools do not reduce deaths. Researchers looked at 133 school shootings and attempted shootings from 1980 to 2019, of which at least one armed guard was present in a quarter. They found that shootings at schools with armed guards killed three times as many people on average.
“Guns are often in the hands of these kids, these mentally disturbed people,” Scarborough said. “Why? Because any kind of gun safety legislation—and in Georgia we’re talking about locking your guns in your homes, safe storage, red flag laws, things that would help here—Republicans say no, no, no.
“It’s not necessarily a fact of life,” Scarborough said.
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