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theresa-of-liechtenstein · 1 year ago

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on a serious note going through active shooter training with people older than me on the order of decades makes me think that much more people would probably agree on tighter gun controls than younger generations realize. they just either can’t bring themselves to discuss it openly or feel like such discussion wouldn’t be welcome

#i just think in general we have nothing to gain and everything to lose if we lack cross-generational dialogue #a lot of older people are really willing to hear out what young people have to say #and more older people than the internet makes it seem like have a lot of sympathy for younger people’s struggles #in my own group we freely talked about gun violence and cost of living and housing and paternity leave #unanimously the group agreed that guns should be more closely regulated. that wages need to reflect higher costs of living.#that there is a housing crisis that older people have benefited from and that we need to fix that #of course the ways in doing that differ but i feel like too many people think older generations are just willfully ignorant of everything #older generations - even those whose political views wr might quickly assume - see what is going on and have sympathy #even though we might not agree on how to fix these problems it’s not like they don’t care or are apathetic or whatever #and these were the same people that people from my kind of liberal university would dismiss as ‘conservative hicks’#when it’s like. lived experience for me to engage with these folks #anyways this got out of hand but #in essence. TOUCH GRASS TALK TO OLD PEOPLE

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