Second Amendment

"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."