fact of life

Most shockingly, he claimed that he and Vance were not that far apart on gun control, an issue that Vance has handled so poorly that it created its own crisis cycle for the Trump-Vance campaign when he recently called school shootings a “fact of life.”

"Deaths of despair" — which Anne Case and Angus Deaton write about in their book by that name — are a fact of life here.

In statewide races for federal office in Maryland, that 2-to-1 margin for Democrats has become a fact of life.

“We refuse to accept shootings at schools, parks and concerts as a normal fact of life. While we fought for the court to go further, today’s ruling affirms our state’s authority to limit guns in many public places,” Newsom said in a statement.

Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said that school shootings were simply a “fact of life” after a shooting at a Georgia high school left four dead — the 45th school shooting in the United States so far this year.