Did Lack of Gun Control Change Gen Z’s Lives, Or Was It Media Hysteria?

The battle of the generations is something that seems to be perpetual. Boomers look down on Millennials. Millennials roll their eyes at Gen Z. Gen Xers like myself are rarely even acknowledged, though we’re pretty used to that. It goes on and on, and considering the ancient Greek writings about the failings of the new generation, it seems like it’s gone on forever.

But the truth is that while it’s really kind of stupid to lump everyone in a generation into a group where you expect them to fit neatly into a box, there are traits that are common across most born in that era.

And the lives of one generation are often very different from the lives of those who came before. My generation had MTV. My kids have YouTube.

For one Gen Z writer, though, Gen Z’s life is terribly burdened and shattered forever because we didn’t just bend the knee and pass gun control.

Gun violence has been the brunt of many of Gen Z’s lives for as long as we can remember. One day, we stopped learning every other month how to run if there is a fire, to how to protect ourselves if a gunman comes on campus.

For the past decade, children have been effected by gun violence in the United States. Guns are now the number one cause of death for the generation.

It is not only in schools, but it plagues our streets and our homes. It has been left up to Gen Z to create that change when others will not.

March For Our Lives

There is still hope for the country and for the youth that we are watching grow, but also one day our own children. 

After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2017 – the deadliest school shooting in years – we saw the rise of March for Our Lives.

The March For Our Lives organization focused on the prevention of gun violence. The people who brought it to light were survivors of the deadly shooting. 

Their work hasn’t gone unnoticed in the political sphere, as proven by the fact that we now have the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

As a group built on the youth of our generation, they are quick to act on social media, reaching their audience of like-minded activists wanting change. The March for Our Lives campaign utilizes digital platforms effectively.

The writer, Bre Mott, apparently missed that there isn’t an Office of Gun Violence Prevention anymore at the White House.

Oops.

Now, school mass shootings are up from when I was in school. This is an inescapable fact, and I won’t try to deny it. But school shootings weren’t just a thing back when I was a kid, but arguably more common. Back then, it was gang violence that spilled into inner-city schools and seemed to happen every single day.

But we understood that the danger, while common enough in some schools, wasn’t exactly something we needed to worry about in ours. Not only did we not have gang members going there, but there were enough guns in the parking lot to overthrow Venezuela. We weren’t worried.

While mass shootings do happen, though, the dangers are horrifically overstated by a media that is desperate to feed a 24-hour news cycle and to advance an anti-gun narrative.

Children aren’t being gunned down more than they’re dying from other causes, either. The media and alleged researchers are pushing that narrative while pretending they’re not including adult gang members in their counts to drive up the fear factor.

On every level, even when the risks exist, they’re overstated to the point that many in Gen Z act as if it’s a miracle they made it to adulthood despite living in safe communities.

What has changed Gen Z’s lives isn’t a lack of gun control. Even gun-controlled California can’t escape mass shootings. That’s not the problem and never was, especially as there were fewer such shootings when we had even laxer gun laws.

No, what’s changed is that media hysteria is desperate to hype up the threats. They overstate the risks, give massive amounts of coverage to these killers, have talking heads who are ready to blame the guns, and will keep it up until the next tragedy…or until Trump says something they can’t help themselves from making a thing of.

That is what changed Gen Z’s lives. Not a lack of gun laws. It’s a media that doesn’t think it has any responsibilities anymore.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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