Yes.
Honestly, this is the thing that has everyone livid. Most people would eagerly give up something they value if it meant not reading about another school shooting next week.
I get that you don’t think gun control will actually have an effect. But this bit of rhetoric isn’t about whether gun control will have an effect, it’s saying, that even if gun control were going to have an effect, you wouldn’t be willing to make any personal sacrifice to stop this, and implicating everyone else as having basically the same position.
Most people don’t. Most people of the people who want guns banned, if it were instead something they liked, would be running out the door, trying to show everyone they are first in line to comply with the new law and save the children.
Now if it were something people had a lot of trouble giving up: booze, chocolate, television; then sure, people would be reluctant. But I find people who like guns seem to take offense when someone suggests they have emotional attachments or dependencies on guns. And even then, that reluctance would take the form of publicly committing to do the right thing and secretly sneaking a chocolate sometimes, not boldly declaring that their love of chocolate was more important than school shootings.
