On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski claimed that 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio had dismissed school shootings as “a fact of life,” but a video she played at the beginning of the show disproved her claim, showing Vance advocating for increased security in schools to prevent mass shootings and saying that it's a “fact of life” that psychopaths know schools are easy targets.
Brzezinski played a video of Vance in which he said, “The solution to this problem, and I truly believe it, 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 a psychopath and you want to make headlines, you find that schools are an easy target. And we have to increase security in our schools, so that any psychopath who comes in through the front door can't come in through the front door and kill kids.”
Co-host Willie Geist noted that Vance had called for increased security, saying, “His full comment was, 'I hate that this is a fact of life.' He said, 'You don't have to like the reality that we live in, but this is the reality that we live in.'
Geist continued, “So you would think that would inspire him to say, let's sit down and say let's change this reality, let's sit down and do something, because even though we had a school resource officer there who acted heroically the other day and probably prevented more kids and teachers from dying, it clearly wasn't enough to save those poor people who died.”
Brzezinski made a claim that contradicts the video we just played:[T]The comments that he made right there are a very vivid example of the difference between the two campaigns, Harris-Waltz versus Trump-Vance. They see Trump-Vance as a fact of life. And Kamala Harris said right after the shooting, “This is a choice that we're making and we have to make a different choice. People don't want this as a fact of life, and no one wants to choose this.”
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