This is a follow-up to my recent article about cat ladies and sociopathic women, according to the all-wise DJ Vance. The more he utters, the more inane he gets. This essay deals with gun violence in general and the recent mass murders in the Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia; two students and two teachers were shot and killed. There were thirteen wounded during the shooting spree on September 4.

In these types of school shootings, many suggest passing stricter gun laws in America. Generally, the pro-gun supporters say that this is to comfort the victims’ families. Talking about gun legislation is the wrong thing to discuss while families mourn, which is an inane statement. If you lost a child in a school shooting, do you get over mourning in a month, year, or ten years? Besides, gun laws are never changed or even debated. We do this dance each time we have a mass shooting.

One voice was different this time, and that was from JD Vance. Vance ceded that these mass shootings were a fact of life. A school shooting is merely a fact of life. Just live with that reality. That is a stupid and absurd comment. If you were a grieving parent, would that help console you? I’m not a grieving parent, but it does make me angry at the Hillbilly Vance.

Vance is as stupid as Donald the Dumb. The way we can control mass shootings is to fortify all the schools with armed guards and the principal with a gun. Let’s ponder the blatant stupidity of that notion.

As of 2020-21, there are 98,577 public schools for students K-12. There are 30,492 private schools. That totals nearly 130,000 schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). There are 6,145 post-high school educational institutions: community colleges, colleges, and universities. Vance wants to create an educational Fortress America.

Fortress America

Assuming that of the 130,000 K-12, each school has three educational buildings: K-6, junior high school, and senior high school. That totals 390,000 buildings.

There are 6,000 community colleges, colleges, and universities in the States. Arizona State University is the largest in-person university, with 80,000 students. The main campus is located in Tempe, Arizona, which has 50 buildings for teaching in addition to dozens of dorms, eateries, stadiums, gyms, etc. The smallest university is the California Institute of Technology. It has five or six dozen buildings. When you multiply 6,000 colleges by 50 to 100 buildings per school, there are 330,000 to 660,000 buildings on college campuses.

Therefore, Vance wants to fortify a total of buildings from K-universities ranging from 720,000 to 1,050,000. How many cops would it take to protect three-quarters of a million buildings with hundreds of students in and around them daily?

While Vance babbles on with the inane fortifying all the schools in America, students will continue to die.

The other reality is that school shootings in K-12 schools are 7.9% of the total and in colleges 5.2%. If Vance wants to fortify killing zones, he should start with workplaces, retail establishments, bars or restaurants, residential locations, and outdoors before addressing schools.

Locations of mass-shootings

Harris’ spokesperson, Ammar Moussa, replied to Hillbilly Vance, “Vice President Harris and Governor Walz know we can take action to keep our children safe and keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Donald Trump and JD Vance will always choose the NRA and gun lobby over our children. That is the choice in this election.”

BBC stats

This situation is another Kierkegaardian either/or situation. Either we fortify America, or we deal with guns directly. An AR-style rifle was used at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. That rife isn’t used for deer hunting, but it is used to kill dear children.

Near London, Kentucky, a suspect bought an AR-15 and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. He didn’t open fire on students in school but drivers on I-75. Five were wounded, and some are in critical condition.