After another school shooting murder event, Republican vice-presidential candidate and incel-adjacent creep J.D. Vance uttered this (boldface mine):

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said Thursday that he lamented that school shootings are a “fact of life” and argued the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia.

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids we’ve got to be prepared for it,” Vance said at a rally in Phoenix. “We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it.”

The Ohio senator was asked by a journalist what can be done to stop school shootings. He said further restricting access to guns, as many Democrats advocate, won’t end them, noting they happen in states with both lax and strict gun laws. He touted efforts in Congress to give schools more money for security.

Here’s the thing: most older millenials (and older than that) lived in a U.S. where school shootings were exceptionally rare (e.g., Columbine). And older GenXers couldn’t even conceive of a world were this sort of thing happened. Yes, school could be fraught, but not like this.

This is not something unattainable, because we previously attained it. We might not be able to prevent all school shootings, but we could certainly lessen the number of shootings per year, if not for the ammosexuals.

This isn’t watering the tree of liberty, it’s just cynicism and despair, which is what fascists thrive on.