I find myself questioning whether it’s worthwhile even engaging in gun control threads any more. If the horrors of Sandy Hook and Uvalde didn’t change peoples minds nothing anyone can say is going to change opinions.

We all know the script - the pro gun people will turn up in the thread with tedious inevitability with all the usual talking points and strawmen to knock down, upvoting each other and downvoting anyone who disagrees.

And nothing changes. And then tomorrow or next week there’s another dead or injured kid or another mass shooting and the ‘debate’ begins anew …