Millennials’ mysterious support for gun rights

[virginia mountainman]

Why are we being told that the "next generation" is virulently anti gun? They are not.

A decade or two post-adolescence – as our own preschool-age children now practice “active shooter” drills in which they’re coached to cower in the closet or throw toys at a tactical-gear-outfitted maniac – millennials seem to have neither the desire nor the willpower to pressure our political leaders to do much to prevent such tragedies. If anything, we may be slightly more blase about them than our elders.

Which does not bode well for liberals hoping that the arc of history will eventually bend toward greater gun control.

Poll data about views of gun control and specific gun-control measures are mixed, and responses vary depending how questions are asked. But statements about protecting gun rights generally elicit at least as much support from younger Americans as from older ones.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article49297845.html#storylink=cpy

Just another bit of bad news for Michael Bloomberg, and those that take his money.