OPINION: A decade after Sandy Hook, the shooting of school children has become a fixture of American life, writes milesperhoward.
, once considered the foil to the GOP — Gen Z has announced itself as the bane of the Republican Party’s existence and future.The initial promise of expanded gun control laws after Sandy Hook was ultimately snuffed out by Congressional math. The Democrats didn’t have enough seats to overcome the Republican Party’s opposition to gun control laws.
Youth turnout numbers and voting patterns in the 2022 midterms offer a real path to gun control: marginalizing the GOP’s political influence. When a political party captures civic infrastructure like this, using institutions to protect its own power and agenda even as most of the country protests, that party can no longer be reasoned with. It can only be clobbered into humility. And that’s what Gen Z voters, who have suffered some of the worst consequences of the Republican Party’s destructive, antisocial position on guns, understand better than their older peers.
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