There’s no doubt that the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has scarred its students — perhaps for life. I sincerely hope not, and I trust that the vast majority will return to school and resume their lives.

However, can we adults finally put our collective feet down and refuse to have children dictate our gun policy?

I’m sorry, but trauma does not make anyone an expert. Yet the media cling to the words of the teenagers who survived the shooting as if they possess canny wisdom beyond their years.

Joy Reid of MSNBC is a prime example, because on Saturday she held a fawning interview with activists David Hogg and Ryan Deitsch on AM Joy. And their comments are simultaneously ignorant and filled with hubris. Yet Reid never countered them.

For example, Reid opened the interview by asking if either Hogg or Deitsch had received any counseling. Deitsch responded as follows:

“We’ve had plenty of access to counseling. . . but frankly we don’t have enough time to deal with the grief. . . we have to take action, we have to continue to speak out with people. . .”

Okay, so Hogg and Deitsch are refusing much-needed counseling, because they’re way too important. Do their parents agree? Or are they encouraging them? Who knows?

Moreover, David Hogg is still calling the NRA “child murderers” — forget the actual killer — and encouraging a boycott of businesses who give discounts for NRA members. Hogg has his sights set on FedEx in particular. Why? His answer:

“The CEO is one of the biggest donors to the NRA and we have to take care of them. . .” (Boldface mine.)

So tell us, David, what exactly will “take care of them” look like? Do you want to put FedEx out of business? Would you like to see young adults — just a few years older than you — lose their jobs because of your anti-gun tantrum? Or do you think you’ll be the one to force a corporation’s Board of Directors to fire their CEO?

What an ego!

Oh, but they’re not anti-gun — Ryan Deitsch assures us of that. Or so he says. However, he is fully ignorant of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution:

“We’re not out here saying we want to take guns. I don’t want to take someone’s gun if they want it, but they need to deserve it.” (Boldface mine.)

Um, Ryan? That’s not how the Constitution works. The Second Amendment declares that the right to ‘keep and bear arms’ is a ‘natural right.’ You do not get to determine who ‘deserves it.’

David Hogg also complained that Republican leaders still won’t listen to them — which, in his world, means to agree with them. But he also threatens state leaders in the same way he threatens the hapless FedEx CEO that he wants to ‘take out’:

“Because they won’t listen to us, we’re gonna have to make sure that we take control of some of these states’ economies.”

And as for Congress? Well, he has designs on them, too:

“I want a major rehaul of everybody who’s in our current House of Representatives to be the outcome.”

Because Republicans are evil, or something.

But don’t you dare criticize them. As Hogg said:

“We don’t deserve to be attacked by adults. We’re literally teenagers.”

Who apparently think they’re as wise as more educated adults who have vastly greater life experiences.

Oh, okay.

And yet throughout the entire interview, Joy Reid never challenges anything these two have to say. Even gently. However, she concludes her interview with this gem:

“Sometimes kids are smarter than adults.”

Really? And here I always thought I was smarter than my children as they were growing up. Silly me.

Here’s the entire interview. Be ready to be gobsmacked.

But, but . . . what about the inept Scot Peterson, the Broward County police officer who failed to enter Stoneman Douglas during the shooting?

David Hogg doesn’t blame him. Not at all. You see, as Hogg said in yet another MSNBC interview:

“Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a glock? And I know that’s what these police officers are supposed to do, but they’re people too.”

Um, maybe because he’s a police officer and it’s his freakin’ job?

JROTC member Brandon Huff — who actually ran to the scene of the shooting — would beg to differ with David Hogg, but only a local reporter cared what he had to say:

"He was pointing his gun at nothing." Student says he watched as @browardsheriff school resource officer Scot Peterson hid behind a staircase during the Stoneman Douglas shooting. @wsvn pic.twitter.com/IWRQorRrcL

— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) February 23, 2018

So will anyone from MSNBC or CNN be interested in what Brandon has to say? Nah. Because the narrative demands that the wicked and foul NRA be blamed for the shooting.

You know, I’m not a member of the NRA. I’m not even fond of shooting, even though I’ve been to the range with my husband. But I strongly support the Second Amendment. And I’m so over these teenage activists, their transparent desire to dismantle gun rights, and their pernicious shills in the media.