Scott Adams is a completely baffling human being to me. He sets up an acknowledged straw man about who is responsible for gun violence. Then uses that straw man to illustrate the mechanism behind a psychological divide between democrats and republicans that he presumes to be real, all of which is done in service of constructing an argument that boils down to saying "neither side is going to budge on this issue because they have different perspectives". Extra points for the martyr complex in his footnotes.