By Ariana Figueroa | AZ Mirror
WASHINGTON — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Saturday night touted his and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ advocacy for LGBTQ rights in a keynote address he delivered at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala — and also criticized comments by his GOP opponent Sen. J.D. Vance that school shootings are a “fact of life.”
“It’s a fact of life, some people are gay,” Walz said in his remarks. “But you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children need to be shot dead in schools.” In a Wednesday school shooting in Georgia at Apalachee High School, two students and two teachers were killed.
Vance, when asked at a campaign stop in Phoenix Thursday about policies to stop school shootings, said, “I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re, 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.”
The school shooting renewed calls from Democrats to ban assault weapons, push for safe storage of firearms and enact red flag laws, which allow a court to temporarily remove firearms from an individual who is deemed a threat to themselves or others.
