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Baitball Blogger

(52,725 posts)
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 02:35 PM Aug 2025

Has anyone polled the younger generations to determine what they think of gun control?

Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z Alpha, Beta vs Baby Boomers?

This might be our salvation to real change in our gun laws.

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Has anyone polled the younger generations to determine what they think of gun control? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 OP
nothing will ever happen to change gun carnage in America Skittles Aug 2025 #1
The biggest gun owners I know DetroitLegalBeagle Aug 2025 #2
From what I have seen they like guns thatdemguy Aug 2025 #3

Skittles

(172,893 posts)
1. nothing will ever happen to change gun carnage in America
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 02:36 PM
Aug 2025

paranoid gun humping cowards WON - now they're working on EVERYONE being armed and paranoid

DetroitLegalBeagle

(2,527 posts)
2. The biggest gun owners I know
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 02:40 PM
Aug 2025

Are 20 to 40yo, so Millenials and Gen Z.

Also, there is this.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/13/gen-z-gun-violence-trauma-ownership]

While one response to that sense of dread has been to join the gun violence prevention movement, another is to embrace firearms. The 2023 Peril study showed that about one-third of youth under 18 believe they are safer with guns than without them. 39% of participants reported having easy access to a gun, and about half of those answers were from young people who purchased a firearm themselves.

In another study from 2019, 42% of boys and men ages 13-21 reported they will likely own a gun in the future, while 76% of all respondents agreed that gun ownership makes a home safer. And between 2002 and 2019, rates of gun ownership among teens rose by 41%. During the pandemic, one-third of people who purchased guns were between 18 and 29 years old.

These swings coincide with rising ownership among demographics not historically linked to firearms, like women, Latinos and Asian Americans. In the latter two groups, new gun owners say that they are motivated to carry by the increased threat of racist extremism.

“Gun ownership has diversified dramatically,” said Kelly Drane, research director at Giffords Law Center in San Francisco.

thatdemguy

(623 posts)
3. From what I have seen they like guns
Wed Aug 27, 2025, 02:42 PM
Aug 2025

But its due to their idea of self protection from maga's and from the gov under the maga's. So many at protests with guns, so many posts on various social media sites posting their guns.

Lots of reddit posts in liberalgun owners.

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