Millennials are no more liberal on gun control than older generations

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Millennials are no more liberal on gun control

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High school students across the United States have been leading the call for more gun control since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

Some have called them the “voice of a generation on gun control” that may be able to turn the tide of a long-simmering debate.

But past polling suggests that people younger than 30 in the U.S. are no more liberal on gun control than their parents or grandparents — despite diverging from their elders on the legalization of marijuana, same-sex marriage and other social issues.

“Sometimes people surprise us, and this is one of those instances that we don’t know why,” says Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup.

Over the past three years, his polling organization asked the under-30 crowd whether gun laws in the U.S. should be made more strict, less strict or kept as they are now. On average, people between the ages of 18 and 29 were 1 percentage point more likely to say gun laws should be more strict than the overall national average of 57 percent.

“Young people statistically aren’t that much different than anybody else,” Newport says. Full Story

Millennials may have deviated from their elders

While gun control advocates would have Americans believe that most millennials support stricter gun control measures, a new Gallup poll shows that millennials are no more liberal on gun control than older generations.

Millennials may have deviated from their elders on social issues like same-sex marriage and the legalization of marijuana, but individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 were only 1 percentage point more likely to support stricter gun laws than the total national average of 57 percent.

“Sometimes people surprise us, and this is one of those instances that we don’t know why,” Frank Newport, the Editor-in-Chief of Gallup, told NPR. “Young people statistically aren’t that much different than anybody else.”

Additionally, a poll by the Pew Research Center in 2017 had similar results: 50 percent of millennials said gun laws in the U.S. should be more strict. According to Kim Parker, the director of social trends research at Pew, that result is nearly identical to the general public as a whole.

While Pew did find differences between millennials and older generations on banning “assault-style” weapons and “high-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds,” the Pew poll indicates that millennials are more conservative when it comes to bans related to those issues compared to Generation Xers and baby boomers. Full Story

Millennials are no more liberal on gun control

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