See, the issue in the Sandy Hook shooting was clearly a people issue. He didn't buy his gun. He tried and was denied by the gun store clerk who recognized something wasn't right. Instead, he murdered his own mother just to gain access to her firearms, which he then used to kill people. Gun control isn't going to stop someone who would do that.

But now, the survivors from that day are, in fact, eligible to vote, and the Washington Post wants you to believe that this is somehow important.

It was barely two weeks into Ella Seaver’s freshman year of college when her phone buzzed with an alert that made the 19-year-old’s heart sink. A school shooting in Winder, Georgia, several people already dead.

In an instant, Seaver understood how the shooting survivors’ future was about to shift: They might no longer walk into a classroom carefree and toss down their backpack at any seat they wish. Instead, every new room will be scanned for the nearest exit and the best place to hide. The innocuous sounds of life — a sharp clap of hands or a water bottle clattering to the floor — will make them jump.

“Every time I see a school shooting, my first and second thought is: ‘Now there are more kids like me,’” Seaver told The Washington Post.

God, what a morbid thought. I sincerely hope she means it as a bad thing, but that's certainly not how I'm reading this, especially in the context of everything else.

I mean, the Post then follows up a short time later with this:

Six survivors from Sandy Hook, now ages 18 and 19, spoke to The Washington Post about how the shooting still influences the trajectory of their lives as they enter adulthood and gear up to become leaders in the next generation of gun violence prevention efforts. First up: voting in their first-ever presidential election.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump diverge sharply in their approach to gun control, a high-stakes dynamic for an election that will shape leadership around gun violence prevention for the next four years, or more.

“There is one candidate who is clearly pro-gun control, and one candidate who is not,” said survivor Matt Holden, now 18 and a freshman at George Washington University. “I can guarantee that somebody out there — somebody’s child, brother or sister or mother or father — somebody is going to lose a loved one that they shouldn’t have lost, all because the wrong person came into office.”

Energized over casting their first presidential ballots, the students are supporting Harris in November; several of those who spoke to The Post met Harris earlier this year, before she became the Democratic nominee, to discuss their experiences. And while their political views are hardly monolithic, they agree that a goal of the next iteration of the gun-control movement should be to extricate what they define as a safety issue from the realm of partisan politics.

Well, if six survivors from a shooting are going to back Kamala Harris, then just what hope does Trump have? I mean, six votes in places like Connecticut is certainly going to change everything on the electoral landscape.

Look, I'm sympathetic that they went through this. No one should.

But how many of their peers don't embrace gun control? How many grew up to recognize that such evil as they encountered that day won't be stopped by a few laws? Why aren't they being talked to by the media?

Don't try to say they don't exist, either. I have every reason to believe they do. Kyle Kashuv survived Parkland and is pro-gun. In fact, a lot of mass shooting survivors are pro-gun because they recognize that guns aren't the problem. People are the problem. I talked about this in a piece from not that long ago, actually. Some of the Lewiston survivors are pro-gun. At least one was more pro-gun than she was before.

How come they're so rarely spoken to? How come they aren't the ones that the media pretends will sway elections?

The short answer is that the reporters don't want to tell that story. They don't want people to see that there are two sides to the coin, that you can be sympathetic to what happened without voting away all of your Second Amendment rights.

Look, I'm not going to belittle what they went through. I don't even want to imagine what it was like to see your friends and teachers gunned down by a maniac trying to achieve immortality or something twisted like that. But it doesn't necessarily convey any degree of expertise and it's quite obvious none of these kids have looked any deeper into the issue of guns and violence than what the media and anti-gun activists have fed them since the day this happened.