Soon after, the Associated Press wrote up the quote and tweeted it out with the caption: “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.” Soon after that, the Vance campaign began complaining that the quote was taken slightly out of its original context.

School shootings are a “fact of life,” so the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia, Republican vice presidential nominee J.D.