On Friday's MSNBC broadcast of “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host and POLITICO White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire criticized Republicans for not banning “AR-15-style rifles” — “even when they were one of the weapons that shot Donald Trump about six weeks ago. And even then, there was no call from the Republican Party for change,” and repeated the false claim that 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio has dismissed school shootings as “just a fact of life, and it's a sad fact that school shootings continue to happen.”
“There's been no widespread movement here to ban these weapons of war, these AR-15 style rifles, even when an AR-15 was one of the weapons used to shoot Donald Trump about six weeks ago. And even then, there was no call from Republicans for change. In fact, J.D. Vance said yesterday that it's a fact of life, a sad fact, that school shootings continue to happen,” Lemire said.
Later in the segment, co-host Mika Brzezinski played a clip of Vance, in which he said that the “fact of life” Vance was referring to was the fact that psychopaths know that schools are an easy target for attack, and Vance advocated for increased security in schools as “what would solve this problem.” Vance responded, “What would solve this problem, and I really do believe that, look, I hate this, I hate to admit this, I hate to say that this is a fact of life, but if you're a psychopath and you want to make headlines, you have to realize that schools are an easy target for attack and you have to increase security in schools so that people who come in through the front door can't come in through the front door and kill our kids.”
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