AP Corrects Post After Quote

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Ah, the Associated Press strikes again. You know it’s going to be a mess when you see a headline like, “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life.’” The second I saw it, I knew the AP was up to their usual tricks, twisting words and smearing anyone who doesn’t toe the liberal line. This time, their target is Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate. Surprise, surprise.

So what’s the story? Vance was speaking about the horrific shooting in Georgia, where a 14-year-old named Colt Gray, who happened to be trans and was a Harris supporter,

killed four people at Apalachee High School. It’s the kind of tragic event that reignites the usual debates — gun control, school security, the whole deal. But instead of focusing on solutions that might actually protect kids, the left always comes back to the same tired playbook: blame the guns, not the criminals, and God forbid we talk about beefing up school security.

Now, Vance made some solid points at a rally in Phoenix, where he called for better security in schools — something that’s actually proven to work. But the AP, in their rush to paint him as some heartless Republican, slapped a headline on the story that made it sound like he was shrugging off school shootings as just part of life.

Here’s what Vance actually said:

“If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it. 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.”

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Vance said. “But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security, so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able.”

What speaks even more to the lie is that Vance never said that school shootings are a fact of life. What he actually said was, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.”

He’s not wrong. The man’s talking about facing the world as it is, not as we wish it were. The solution? Harden our schools and make it tougher for these psychos to turn our kids into targets. But of course, the AP zeroed in on the part where Vance mentions this grim reality, twisting his words to fit their agenda.

And here’s the kicker: Vance wasn’t saying school shootings are just a fact of life, like some inevitability we can’t change. He was talking about the fact that as long as these twisted individuals see our schools as soft targets, we need to do something about it — like putting armed resource officers in schools, something that actually deters these kinds of attacks. But of course, Democrats and their media allies can’t stand that idea. They’d rather keep pushing for gun control measures that, let’s be honest, won’t stop a determined criminal.

What’s even more laughable is that the AP included the full quote in the article itself. You know, the one where Vance literally says, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.” But who needs context when you’ve got a narrative to push, right? Especially when our Vice President who’s currently running for the Presidency pushes the lie…but what else is new.

So, what happens next? The tweet gets deleted after people start calling out the AP’s dishonesty. Maybe next time, they’ll think twice before trying to twist a senator’s words to fit their agenda. Corrections are in order, but the damage is done.

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