Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance visited Minneapolis’s Annunciation Church on Wednesday and were met with protesters upon their arrival.
This visit comes a week after a gunman opened fire during the school’s opening Mass, killing two children and injuring 17 others. Vance and his wife arrived to lay flowers at the vigil outside the church.
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“Protect our kids,” one protester shouted.
“Do this for our children,” another protester said.
The Vances passed protesters without acknowledging them.
J.D. Vance and Usha Vance enter Annunciation Church in Minneapolis.
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Leftist protestors proceed to shout “You’re a coward” and “do better” while flying a rainbow flag. pic.twitter.com/ZVmLlL85wg
“You’re a coward,” a protester said.
“Do better,” another said.
Protesters also held signs that read, “Kids’ lives over guns,” “Enough,” and “Common sense gun laws now,” among other slogans.
Vance’s trip to Minnesota coincidentally comes almost a year after a Trump campaign event in Arizona, where he spoke about school shootings.
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In that campaign speech last year, Vance said, “If these psychos are going to go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it. We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the reality we live in. We’ve got to deal with it. I don’t like that this is a fact of life.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to the vice president’s office for comment.