Seriously?

Here we are, talking about yet another school shooting, and the conversation hasn’t changed. This is embarrassing! We, as adults, should be capable of rationally discussing a solution to a very real problem; instead, we’re shouting at each other about the second amendment while children continue to be senselessly slaughtered.

SHAME ON US!!

And I’m done with the false equivalency. There is a right side and a wrong side in this debate. The pro-gun community has repeatedly dropped the ball on adulting about this issue over the last decade or so. When presented with the opportunity to behave like rational adults, you’ve passed on it in favor of temper tantrums, memes, and bumper sticker slogans; I’m unimpressed. You’ve repeatedly failed to behave like adults, so I’m done talking to you like you’re adults.

After Columbine, it was understandable that y’all had a bit of a chip on your shoulder; this sort of thing had never happened before, and I can see why you wanted to keep heads cool in the conversation and not let hysteria lead to unnecessary and ineffective new gun restrictions.

But then there was Sandy Hook; that’s where you guys really jumped the shark. If you were really the “responsible gun owners” you kept trying to present yourselves to be, you would have been willing to enter into dialogue about how to prevent that sort of horror in the future. Instead you chose to indulge yourselves in ridiculous conspiracy theories about the grieving parents of pre-teen children slaughtered at school being actors paid by George Soros; go fuck yourselves!

You no longer have any credibility, and your input is no longer welcome. You had a chance to be at the table, and you turned it down. Gun regulation will happen, whether you like it or not, and now you’re really going to hate how it goes. Go back to gazing at your navels and let the adults (many of whom, it turns out, are still in High School) handle it. Your childish behavior has turned a generation starting to reach voting age into a solid anti-gun voting bloc; way to go!