This quote has been taken out of context.

No it wasn't you ignorant ass. Even the abbreviated quote says the same thing. There is zero difference in meaning.

"I don't like this. I don't like to admit this. I don't like that this is a fact of life."

To me, the actual full quote is worse, because it reveals Vance admitting 1) He doesn't like to "admit" his truth on the subject; 1) He doesn't like that "this (school shootings resulting in the murder of innocent children and teachers) is a fact of life."

It's NOT a fact of life, it's wholly preventable if we want to! There are myriad ways where law-abiding Americans can have weapons while we stop them from being used to slaughter our children. Only a coward and a fool says "I don't like to admit the indiscriminate killing of our children by weapons designed for warfare is a fact of life."

Vance is just another scared coward unwilling to join rightly concerned citizens to amend our 2nd Amendment to better protect non-carrying Americans if we can't find a way to stop these shootings within its language somehow.

Methinks you have the intellect of an amoeba with diarrhea.

There is no difference in meaning: Vance thinks that the killing of school children is a fact of life.

The preface only establishes his dislike of a "fact" that isn't a fact. It's only a fact to those unwilling to do something to change the current status quo.

Hardening schools won't eliminate shootings, stopping deranged people from accessing the weaponry used in school shootings will stop school shootings.