How mass shootings affect young voters
For a generation raised on mass shootings as a regular part of American life, politics can either be a place to enact change — or something to completely ignore.
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Show Notes
This year’s midterm elections were expected to be a referendum on the economy, but as gun violence is on the minds of Americans, yet again, millennials and zillennials, who’ve grown up in an era of massacres, might prove a constituency that no politician can ignore. If they show up to the ballot box, that is.
Today, we talk about how gun violence affects the politics of young voters.
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Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellow Anumita Kaur
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