Tag: World view

Today, on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting and just over two months after the shooting in Parkland, Fla., many students around the country are walking out of class again. One big question around these protests is what kind of lasting political impact this might have on a new generation of first-time voters. EMILY NAKANO: The first time I was behind a gun, I was probably 3 or 4. KHALID: Nakano's 18. She's part of this new generation of voters coming up behind millennials. KHALID: Anderson is a millennial who studied her generation. TODD GITLIN: Your attitudes vary greatly according to whether you were black or white, whether you were in the South or the North. GITLIN: It's not a function of birth dates. And he told me that he wasn't really politically aware until he came home from the war, and it did not have the same impact on everybody. Asma Khalid, NPR News.