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EPISODE · Jun 9, 2022 · 22 MIN

How mass shootings affect young voters

from Headlines From The Times · host Ashlea Brown, Angel Carreras, David Toledo, Gustavo Arellano, Shannon Lin, Carlos De Loera, Denise Guerra, Kinsee Morlan, Kasia Broussalian, Mike Heflin, Surya Hendry, Madalyn Amato, Mario Diaz, Mark Nieto, Jazmín Aguilera, Shani O. Hilton

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.Read the full transcript here.Host: Gustavo ArellanoGuests: L.A. Times 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellow Anumita KaurMore reading:Newsletter: Essential Politics: Do mass shootings affect young voters?School shootings have increased recently; the violence in Texas is among the deadliestThousands protest outside NRA convention in Texas days after massacre in Uvalde

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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