Warnock responds to JD Vance’s comments on Georgia shooting: Guns make us all ‘sitting ducks’

One of Georgia’s senators has responded to Republican vice presidential contender JD Vance after he referred to school shootings as a regrettable “fact of life” in modern society.

Raphael Warnock, who won a six-year term in 2022 after defeating a Republican challenger to secure his first full term in office, appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday after a shooting in his state claimed the lives of two students and two teachers at a high school. Nine others were injured.

He was asked about the comments by Vance, which ignited a media firestorm and were seized upon by Kamala Harris’s campaign as the latest sign of Republicans’ refusal to address such horrific attacks in American schools. The Ohio senator, speaking at a rally in Arizona, lamented, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” after the shooting took place last week.

“Listen, JD Vance claims that this random, routine carnage is a ‘fact of life’. No, it’s not. This is a fact of American life,” Warnock stressed to NBC’s Kristen Welker.

He added: “There are children that are troubled in other countries. This only happens here. It’s the guns.”

“In America, it’s not safe to be in our schools, it’s not safe to be in our shopping malls. … We’re all sitting ducks.”

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(D-Ga.) says no single law could have prevented the Georgia shooting and many politicians are “beholden to the gun lobby.”

Warnock: “In America, it's not safe to be in our schools, it's not safe to be in our shopping malls. … We're all sitting ducks.” pic.twitter.com/o5TaWsdQMm

Warnock is correct; the US experiences shooting incidents in schools at a number that is unmatched by any other