Posted March 29, 2018 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

By now, you’ve heard about the so-called March for Our Lives. Supposedly spearheaded by a bunch of kids, the march was intended to encapsulate the rage of America’s youth at the absolute refusal of American politicians to “do something” about gun violence. The fact that violent crime has been on the decline since the 1990s is irrelevant, apparently. What matters is that we ban the least useful weapon for most criminal activity on the planet.

However, it seems that the makeup of March for Our Lives wasn’t quite what we expected.

However, the young faces of the advocates have created an assumption that “youth” and “students” are the core of the movement. My research tells a different story about who participated in the March for Our Lives — and it is more complicated and less well-packaged for prime time.

As part of my research on the American Resistance, I have been working with a research team to survey protesters at all the large-scale protest events in Washington since President Trump’s inauguration. By snaking through the crowd and sampling every fifth person at designated increments within the staging area, we are able to gather a field approximation of …Read the Rest

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