Are assassination attempts now just a fact of life?

In our gun-mad culture, we can keep neither our schoolchildren nor political leaders safe.

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This month, after a school shooting in Georgia claimed four lives, Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance , argued that school shootings are just a “fact of life.” “I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” the Ohio senator 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.”.