Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, after a shooting on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. - Mike Stocker/Sun Sentinel/TNS
New polling shows trouble ahead for Republican politicians who continue blocking any attempt at rational restrictions on guns: Young conservatives of the kind the GOP will increasingly need in the future are far more open to required psychological exams for gun purchasers and other firearms limits than are their older conservative counterparts. The reason is hardly mysterious: Gen Z — including its more right-leaning members — have all grown up in a country drowning in gun violence thanks to older conservatives’ stubborn resistance to even consider the mildest gun-safety proposals. Mass school shooting...
