I guess people on our side are trying to discredit the skulls full of mush who are calling for gun bans.
There's a reason why relatives of crime victims are not admitted to serve on juries in cases where their family member was a victim.. It's because they are not expected to view facts rationally. In fact my experience in being excused from jury duty is that it's not just relatives who are excluded, but anyone who has been the victim of a remotely similar crime is also routinely excused.
And so the kids who were traumatized by this or any school shooting might actually be good problem solvers, etc., but not this problem and not right now.
ML/NJ
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton