The first graders who survived Sandy Hook will vote in their first presidential election
It’s a monumental moment that has given some survivors hope for change, nearly 12 years after 26 first graders and educators were killed in the shooting.
I'm glad we've taken care of the access to guns and made progress on the societal issues that led to school shootings in the past 12 years, and that they're no longer common.
Oh, wait, we didn't do either of those things?
Columbine was 25 years ago, those 'kids' are in their 40s now and nothing's changed.
Edit: not saying it was their responsibility to fix it, just that the school shooting stuff has been a reality for a whole generation.
Something definitely broke in society around that time though, and "access to guns" only describes an outlet or mechanism, and not the underlying problem.
Pre-1968, civilians could buy full auto machineguns. At one point in the 1930s the Sears catalog would send a full auto Tommy Gun straight to your house via mail order with no background check. And yet in those eras the idea of a grand spectacle suicide/homicide event would have been absolutely unthinkable, even among the most disposessed in society.
The root problem is something more like cultural narcissm, for lack of a better word.
The concept of a deep cynical anti-hero move like publicly murdering pseudo-random aquaintances is a relatively modern problem. Maybe we need to do a better job suppressing "main character vibes" and narcissism, the acting out and sociopathy that is prevalent now.
IIRC one of the Columbine survivors was a student during the Virginia Tech shooting...
Consider that those shootings are getting way more frequent. We get a Columbine about four times a year now and around 43 other shootings where there might be only injuries or singular casualties. Kids grow up in the States with lockdown drills. That entire voting block is going to be old enough to vote in 12 years.
I expect anti gun sentiments are growing now as each year new voters are growing up in that system where these events aren't considered rare anymore. Where parents who came of age in the 2000's have kids and are now front row to that milliterization and afraid because their families have skin in that game.
These laws are gunna happen one day.
Yes. No generation owns gun violence and schools. It’s been going on since before Y2K at least.
Over 400 school shootings since Columbine. We as a society have failed our children.
....my first reaction was going 'Wait, only 400?' immediately followed by 'Jesus christ, 400.'
I'm not sure which of those is actually worse.
Wow, had no idea it’s been that long already! 🤯
Probably because Alex Jones's court case about it was so recent.
The gears of justice move slowly (or some similar line of dismissive bullshit)
Man, I was like why are 12 year olds voting?
This is my unsurprised face as 40%+ of them continue to vote republican, just like their parents always have.
I wonder which way many of these new voters lean. Willing to bet on the general direction of the group as a whole. There's always outliers, but I'm pretty confident on this one.
I remember a story from one of schools that got shot up. There was always one that got highlighted in right wing news. They were going to be the Kyle Rittenhouse spokes like person but I think they couldn't stand being ridiculed by everyone
I know a guy who was a student there when it happened. Newtown is white-bread upper-middle Connecticut. Fairly conservative, in the actual sense, not the Republican sense. They've been fairly evenly split in the past few presidential elections. While some of the people directly affected might lean more left, I'm not sure if it's a significant number.
It's probably just going to be the typical 40/40/20 split of Dem/Rep/Undecided.
I am older than the Sun
The big yellow one is the sun!
Hang in there. Don't forget your meds.
I truly doubt that you're 4.604 billion years old
Will this allow the USA gun laws like Switzerland?
