The Anti-Gun Movement’s Use of Child Crusaders Debases National Discourse

Gun laws are by no means out of bounds for public discussion, and it is valid to use recent events to illustrate flaws in our system, but the leveraging of emotion-both that felt by the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas survivors and that which it evokes from the public-detracts from the quality of our national discourse. To the survivors of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooting, we owe compassion, but to ourselves, we owe a sober and fact-based approach to policy.