Backlash for JD Vance after calling school shooting a ‘fact of life’

Republican vice-presidential candidate was criticized for tone-deafness after comments at campaign rally in Arizona

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America’s ideological split over gun control has spilled over into the presidential campaign after JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, voiced regret that school shootings had “become a fact of life” in the US.

Vance’s comments – in the wake of the latest deadly shooting, at Apalachee High School in Georgia – ignited a political row after Democrats depicted them as evidence of a lack of empathy while Republicans claimed the remarks had been taken out of context. Continue reading...


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