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Related: About this forumVance called school shootings a 'fact of life.' Father of Parkland victim responds - CNN
Fred Guttenberg, gun violence prevention advocate and father of Jaime Guttenberg, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim, responds to Sen. JD Vance's claim that school shootings are a 'fact of life' and disagrees with his claim that schools need to increase security.
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Vance called school shootings a 'fact of life.' Father of Parkland victim responds - CNN (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Sep 6
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Darwins_Retriever
(929 posts)1. Need to increase security
These are the beginnings of a fascist militia.
grumpyduck
(6,645 posts)2. Yeah, I wonder how that mfer
would respond if his kid were shot.
"My wife's kid was shot."
cbabe
(4,108 posts)3. School shootings are Republican post-birth abortions??
sanatanadharma
(4,074 posts)4. It was not a fact of life when I was schooled up
The 1966 Austin Texas tower terror was not the umpteenth of the year that year.
In the years since all the 'gunsters' have gone trump-shit insane, engaged in a 21st century personal arms race.
appalachiablue
(42,822 posts)5. 'Fact of Life', since when? Not in my generation, parents, grands.. He needs a better writer/coach.
Will pandemics like Covid, toxic pollution and other ills be considered a 'fact of life' for the usual far right reasons?