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Sandy Hook survivors graduate from high school (www.bbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/connecticut

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[–] friend_of_satan 43 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Kids who grew up as victims of mass shootings are coming or voting age.

[–] SpaceNoodle 21 points 5 months ago

More every year.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have been for over a decade, if not more.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We've been multitudes since the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Columbine survivors are old enough to be grandparents.

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 5 months ago

Technically ...

[–] JustZ 1 points 5 months ago

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.