The way I see it is this: if you're against gun control, you're either
A) Devoid of empathy
B) A lunatic
Because if one of your kids/loved ones is killed in a mass shooting like this, and you're still against gun control, then you're a lunatic. If not, then you're just an asshole with zero sympathy for the families that have lost loved ones.
I don't know about you, but regardless of the politics, I would not want any of my elected officials to fall into category A or B.
There can be no debate when people like you go and throw a wrench into it.
PS: I come from a certain european country, that has easier access to guns (including assault rifles) than large part of USA. Guess what - zero school shootings.
These A & B is a cheap rhetorical trick, called the false dichotomy, because there's also C which is "you understand that guns save many more people from criminals". On the one side there are 5 thousand of innocents shot every year. On the other side there are 500 thousand of would-be killed and would-be raped innocents who used guns to defend themselves. By banning guns you're playing a demi-god who is deciding which of the two groups of innocents are less worthy, a demi-god who doesn't even care to consider all the facts and instead submits to emotions.
See that's part of why we can't have a discussion on the issue as long as one side keeps believing that the other side is a members of the globohomo communist conspiracy and the other side views everyone else as morally impaired nut cases we won't get anywhere.
We'll keep having nothing happen and keeping getting madder and madder.
A) Devoid of empathy
B) A lunatic
Because if one of your kids/loved ones is killed in a mass shooting like this, and you're still against gun control, then you're a lunatic. If not, then you're just an asshole with zero sympathy for the families that have lost loved ones.
I don't know about you, but regardless of the politics, I would not want any of my elected officials to fall into category A or B.