Kids who grew up as victims of mass shootings are coming or voting age.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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More every year.
They have been for over a decade, if not more.
We've been multitudes since the 90s.
You know what, you're right. This shit has been going on so often and for so long, you kinda lose sense of time. Thinking back, I was in high school when Columbine occurred and school shootings have been steadily on the rise since then. Tons of current voters grew up in the age of school shootings.
Columbine survivors are old enough to be grandparents.
Technically ...
As others pointed out this is not very accurate, but you do have a point. Columbine was an aberration. Those who were in school at the time had never imagined such a thing. Sort of like how before 9/11 nobody really had an image of terrorists doing something as brazen as hijacking a bunch of airliners and simply crashing them into buildings.
It is very accurate to say that a massive cohort of people who grew up very familiar with the idea of school shootings, for whom Columbine would have been routine, rather than aberrant, and that they are now more fully aging into the electorate.
All evidence points to this cohort being extremely liberal and committed to science, and that fills me with hope.
I wonder if Alex Jones would be able to graduate