March For Our Lives was an organization that spun out of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. It made a lot of waves early, then sort of settled into the background noise of anti-gun groups.

In fact, things have been so rough for the organization that they recently laid off most of their staff.

Well, it seems among those who were laid off was anyone with any semblance of a brain, assuming such a creature had worked for them in the first place.

I say that because they released the most idiotic critique of the proposed reduction of the tax stamp for suppressors I’ve ever seen.

March For Our Lives: “Republicans in Congress are once again choosing the gun lobby over our lives — pushing a nearly $1.5 billion tax break for gun manufacturers by eliminating a critical safety tax on silencers.” pic.twitter.com/DSEhLr5NZP

— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) May 16, 2025

That’s right. It’s a “critical safety tax” that does nothing for safety.

The funds for the tax stamp go toward conservation efforts. Homemade suppressors have been a thing for decades, which means any criminal who wants one could have had one the whole time–and many did. Then, with 3D printing being a thing, they’re more common. Luigi Mangione allegedly used one in the murder of Brian Thompson.

So this “safety tax” is really nothing of the sort.

Then we have them calling this a “tax break for gun manufacturers.”

If there were any doubt that no one there has a functioning brain, this should eliminate it.

The gun industry doesn’t pay that tax. Consumers do. This isn’t a tax break for any of them. They’ll pay the exact same in taxes as they would, at least by percentage of profit, that they do right now.

The tax stamp is something paid by consumers directly to the ATF. The company might take it in to redirect it on behalf of the consumer, but the truth of the matter is that it’s still a tax paid by the buyer.

But what they likely figured they had to do is make it look as evil as possible, and a tax break for an industry is a lot less popular than a tax break for buyers. Even on something like suppressors.

Then we get a little farther down. “If you vote to allow silencers to flood our streets, you are telling young people our lives are disposable.”

Oh boy. That’s just weapons-grade stupidity.

If gun control works as claimed, then why would suppressors represent any kind of a problem? I mean, they’re not any good without a gun to attach them to, right? Plus, what most people are asking for is that they’re sold like a firearm, which means all the same applicable laws, including background checks for purchases. Are they admitting that gun control doesn’t work? It sure looks like they are.

Then we have the fact that while they go through the whole thing about how they make it harder to hear that someone is shooting, they fail to note that these safety devices don’t actually silence anything. This is classic fearmongering, claiming that suppressors will somehow make mass shootings worse or something.

But I have a question for March For Our Lives and their supporters.

Why is it that they’re so focused on guns when we know that students are more than 200 times more likely to experience sexual misconduct at the hands of a teacher than they are to experience a school shooting? They’re eight times more likely to be raped by a teacher than experience a school shooting.

If young people’s lives are so important, and I think they are, why are they silent on a topic that’s far more likely to destroy a young person’s life?

I don’t expect any answers from them, of course, because it’s inconvenient to justify taking issue with a bigger problem as opposed to one that is smaller but gets more press.