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Conservative Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) took CNN’s Dana Bash to school over the weekend after facing a grilling days after a mentally ill student killed four and critically wounded nine others during a shooting.
Bash, a self-proclaimed journalist, perpetuated a quote by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) that school shootings are just “a way of life” in America today, a statement that was taken out of context by the Associated Press and quickly fixed in a series of social media posts last week. Still, Bash tried to corner the Arkansas Republican by asking what remedies GOP lawmakers would support to reduce the number of mass shootings.
“Do you accept that school shootings like this are just a way of life now?” Bash asked him, to which Cotton shot back, “It wasn’t as bad as it might have been because there was a police officer on school premises that was able to neutralize the shooter. Kamala Harris wants to take police officers out of schools. She’s said it in the past.”
A clip of the testy encounter cuts away to a previous statement by the vice president, who said in 2019, “What we need to do about demilitarizing our schools, and taking police officers out of schools.” Republicans have seized on the comment as evidence that the Democratic nominee believes resource officers and teachers do not need to be trained with firearms in order to intercept school shooters.
“That’s her position,” Sen. Cotton continued. “That’s not surprising, because she’s consistently taken positions against law enforcement throughout her career as a San Francisco liberal. If that police officer hadn’t been there and Kamala Harris had gotten her way, many more students and teachers might have been killed.” . . .
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