The way both the Left and the Right responded to teen climate activist Greta Thunberg’s United Nations speech was a travesty. It’s increasingly common on both sides of the aisle for children to champion policy, but it’s more concerning to see petulant behavior coming from the adults in the room.

To be clear, everyone should be allowed to express their political beliefs, regardless of age. After the shooting at my school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, I spoke out for school safety and defended gun rights.