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Originally Posted by crockett
The baby boomers are dying off. In 20 years the country will be rid if them and things will change. The millennial will be the biggest voting block and they will be young enough to still care and not be to jaded to actually change shit.
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I was talking to a friend the other day about the gun control debate. He is one of those people that thinks the problems would be solved if everyone just walked around with a gun strapped to their hip. I pointed out to him that the Millenials are the biggest generation in the history of this country. They lean further left than previous generations. They hate the baby boomers and aren't fond fo Gen X, many of them are educated (albeit with the accompanying debt), and they have grown up with a very different world view because they grew up with the internet, smartphones etc. If we don't fix the problem in 15-20 years when they are in power they will and it may come in the form of a flat-out gun ban or very heavy regulation. We might be at a moment in history where we fix it or regret it dearly later.