Posted March 26, 2018 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Parkland “survivors” David Hogg, Cameron Kasky, and Emma Gonzalez have been tearing up the airwaves, pressing a pro-gun control agenda just moments after a maniac killed 17 people at their high school. They’ve promoted school walkouts and Saturday’s March For Our Lives, all designed to press lawmakers into passing gun control measures they argue would stop the next school shooter.

However, there’s a problem with their efforts. Other than being wrongheaded, I mean. It seems they don’t necessarily represent their whole generation.

Many American high schoolers do not blame school shootings on guns and don’t argue the answer is tighter restrictions on firearms. It’s a view at odds with many of their classmates, yet born from the same safety concerns.

“There’s many things that go into a solution for this, and it’s not guns,” said Melanie Clark, an 18-year-old high school senior from Tallahassee. “We’re definitely in the minority for believing that it’s not guns.”

As gun-control advocates their age gain popularity and others cast their generation as anti-firearm, pro-gun students feel at times overlooked. But polling suggests young people aren’t overwhelmingly for gun control.

A USA TODAY/Ipsos poll taken after the Parkland shooting found fewer than half of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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