Younger Voters No Longer Focused On Guns

Immediately after Parkland, the media heralded the young as the way forward on gun control. Led by people like David Hogg, the youth vote was going to push guns front and center. They were going to hold politicians accountable and all that crap.

However, the media ignored some very real problems with that statement. For one, the youth vote only accounts for a fairly small percentage of the entire electorate. While high school students may be passionate, most of them can’t vote and are thus easily ignored by politicians and the population as a whole. Of students in high school and college who can vote, most of them don’t.

The youth vote isn’t necessarily something to count on. Especially since they can also be distracted by other issues.