JD Vance says school shootings "a fact of life"

Speaker 1: JD Vance again stuck his foot in his  mouth, saying that school shootings are just a   fact of life. This is, after the deadly shooting  in Georgia. And he says, you know. Which it just   is. It is. Now, look, the Kamala Harris answer to  this is to take law-abiding American citizens guns   away from them. That is what Kamala Harris wants  to do. Says, 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 at our schools so that a person  who walks through the front door. So he does his   usual you've got to harden the schools and double  up the doors and add a second lock to the window   and this entire thing. It's a fact of life, he  says. Yet no other developed country has this   problem. It's not a fact of life in Canada or  the UK or Spain or Australia or Hong Kong or,   you know, I'm trying to include or Sweden. I'm  trying to include a number of different types of   governments, more and less authoritarian, more,  more and less wealthy. It's not a fact of life   in any of these places. It's only a fact of life  in the types of countries that Trump would often   refer to as shithole countries. And these are not  the countries that we normally expect Republicans   to equate us with. So, as usual, it's all about,  I will say whatever I need to say to avoid dealing   with the things that really matter here. Number  one, put it anywhere in the list, but somewhere   on the list. Accessibility of firearms. It has  to be on the list. Now, I am not so disconnected   from reality that I am a get rid of the guns and  we totally solve the issue altogether. We have a   second amendment. We're not going to get rid of  all the guns, but in addition to the gun part,   we also need to deal with licensing, testing and  mandatory insurance. We also need to deal with the   toxic gun culture of the United States, because  there are lots of other country, there are other   countries. Switzerland is an example where guns  are more available than in some other countries.   But culturally you don't have as many people who  think to themselves, oh, I have a problem. I have   an emotional problem, I have a personal problem,  I have an employment problem, I have a cultural   problem. I'm going to take a gun and try to solve  that problem. And so that's a part of it as well.   We have a broken culture in this country, and it  exists because of this gun culture that the right   wing has generated. And I would also include  in that mental health. Now, the little caveat   with mental health, because Republicans love  to say this is only a mental health problem.   If you believe that mental health is part of the  problem, then you must fully fund access to mental   health treatment. And as many of you know, in  combination, because of in some areas, stigma,   in other areas, insurance company decisions, all  sorts of different things. You need time off for   therapy from work. Well, that's not that's going  to have to be unpaid. You know, all this different   stuff. We're also not even getting the people  who say mental health is the primary issue to   actually say, well, because we think it's the  primary issue, here's how we're going to take   it more seriously, make it more acceptable,  etc.. So I include mental health in it,   for sure, but I'm the one who actually wants  to destigmatize mental health, make it more   accessible. So JD Vance is disgusting. He's  a horrible person. He's failing as a VP,   but he's also laughably stupid or blind when he  says it is a fact of life, when it only seems to   be a fact of life. In the United States, among  Western wealthy, developed countries, it's these   people are truly disgusting. They must lose in  November. Legally, of course, we must defeat them   in November with a victory so big that they can't  steal it. We have a fantastic bonus show for you   today. We will talk about Putin's faux endorsement  of Kamala Harris. We will talk about Dick Cheney   saying he's voting for Kamala Harris. We will  talk about Kamala Harris abandoning her previous   suggestion to get rid of plastic straws.  And I want to remind you, tomorrow night,   8 p.m. eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific, I will  be live, live, live for the Trump Harris   debate. I hope that you will join me. Make  sure you've preordered my forthcoming book,   The Echo Machine, available at David Pacman,  e-commerce, echo and everywhere. Physical books,   audio books and ebooks are sold. And of course,  remember that all three of my children's books,   one on the scientific method, one on critical  thinking, one on the importance of voting,   they are all available at David pakman.com/book.  They make great stocking stuffers. Hanukkah   gifts. Everything all right? I'll see you on  the bonus show and then back here tomorrow.