Footage from earlier this year on the campaign trail shows Vice President-elect JD Vance brilliantly maneuvering a question on the campaign trail when a CNN reporter attempted to bait him into supporting gun control. When asked about a horrific school shooting that occurred earlier this year in Georgia, Vance defended gun rights while outlining a strategy to prevent incidents like this from happening in the future.
CNN reporter Kit Maher asked Vance at a campaign event, “In the wake of the Georgia school shooting yesterday, I wanted to ask you, what specific policies do you support to end school shootings like this, and if you allowed a second one specifically on the debate, Has Trump consulted you for any advice? Have you participated in the policy discussions that he has held with Tulsi Gabbard, and what advice have you offered to him?”
Vance responded, “First of all, what happened in Georgia is just an awful tragedy. And I know we’ve got a lot of parents and a lot of grandparents in this room. I mean, I cannot imagine, you know, little kids so excited to go back to school. God love them, and they’re at their first week back from the summer, and an absolute barbarian decides to open fire and take their lives. And also a couple teachers.”
The soon-to-be vice president maintained that that we must offer prayers and support to victims of these horrific tragedies. “We gotta, we gotta think about these people. If you’re the praying type, and I know I am, we gotta hold them up in prayer. We gotta be, we gotta be hoping for the best, for these, for this incredible community, because no parent should have to deal with this,” he said. “No child should have to deal with this. And yes, after holding these folks up in prayer and giving them our sympathies, because that’s what people deserve in a time of tragedy, then we have to think about how to make this less common.”
First, Vance pointed out that Vice President Kamala Harris’s stance is to restrict gun ownership and infringe upon the Second Amendment Rights of law-abiding American citizens. “Now look, Kamala Harris’s answer to this is to take law-abiding American citizens’ guns away from them. That is what Kamala Harris wants to do,” he said.
He then explained why this is not the answer to preventing school shootings. “But we have to ask ourselves, we actually have been able to run an experiment on this, because you’ve got some states with very strict gun laws and you’ve got some states that don’t have strict gun laws at all, and the states with strict gun laws, they have a lot of school shootings, and the states without strict gun laws, some of them have school shootings too,” Vance said. “So clearly, strict gun laws is not the thing that is going to solve this problem.”
Offering his plan to protect innocent children in America’s schools, Vance said, “What is going to solve and I do believe this is, look, I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that. This is a fact of life. But if you’re 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 in our schools so that a person who walks through the front door, we’ve got to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children that they’re not able to.”
Watch Vance’s response below:
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