Why so Stupid?

I can't understand why people who seem otherwise intelligent can be so STUPID on the "gun issue." Way too many top politicians are buying the anti-gun fool rhetoric, even though their laws DEMONSTRABLY are ineffective and useless in "stopping gun violence." Now even the POPE is joining the anti-gun fools in calling for even more anti-gun laws that only leave the law-abiding "easy targets" for criminals, who don't bother to obey their piddling gun laws. He's telling them, "Keep shouting, don't become anesthetized." What the hell FOR? No amount of shouting in support of laws that do no good will save any lives. In fact, the shouting will ultimately COST lives when fools decide to shoot up a place with a legal or ILLEGAL gun--which is not difficult to obtain, either in a back alley somewhere, out of the car trunk of another criminal, or just by STEALING it. The Pope told the kids not to let themselves be manipulated by older people, but that's exactly what is happening. Who is paying the cost for those many buses necessary to transport those many students to their "demonstrations?" Who pays for the food and water and toilet facilities for both the trips and during the demonstrations? Who writes the scripts for those students, who likely have never spoken before anybody before to so "eloquently" repeat? No; they're already being manipulated, and taken advantage of in their fright. (Reuters)