Are Millennials Moving Right on Guns?

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/15/2017 - 1:50am |

Pollsters are puzzled by young Americans’ seemingly contradictory views on guns. Maybe they’re confused? Or maybe there’s something deeper going on.

By Ben Wofford @ Politico.com, Oct. 12

Are younger Americans more progressive? One would be hard pressed to disagree [....] But gun politics is where the easy caricature of America’s radicalized youth marching toward socialism ends. It remains one of the few arenas in which a younger generation’s views are not emphatically moving leftward in any obvious way. And for those who would expect or hope otherwise, the data can disappoint [....]

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/12/are-millennials-moving-right-on-guns-215703

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Why Are Millennials Wary of Freedom?

By Clay Routledge @ Sunday Review @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 14, (Routledge is a professor of psychology at North Dakota State University)

According to the World Values Survey, only about 30 percent of Americans born after 1980 believe it is absolutely essential to live in a democratic country, compared with 72 percent of Americans born before World War II. In 1995, 16 percent of Americans in their late teens and early adulthood thought democracy was a bad idea; in 2011, the number increased to 24 percent.

Young Americans also are disproportionately skeptical of free speech. A 2015 poll from the Pew Research Center found that 40 percent of millennials (ages 18 to 34) believe the government should be able to regulate certain types of offensive speech. Only 27 percent of Gen-Xers (ages 35 to 50), 20 percent of baby boomers (ages 51 to 69) and 12 percent of the silent generation (ages 70 to 87) share that opinion [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/15/2017 - 2:58am

Are Millennials Moving Right on Guns?

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