I have been looking at polls on abortion. It's breaking prolife, especially among young voters. Ditto the 2nd Amendment.
I have seen those same polls, but you have to remember a few things.
First, I haven’t see the real “meat” of those polls. How, where, and how often where they taken? What where the questions? Etc. There are polls that show the exact opposite (more young people are pro abortion and anti gun).
Second, young people don’t vote. The current political class doesn’t care much about young voters, because the age group of 18 to mid 20’s don’t vote much.
Third. Even if they poll is correct, and this group is voting. They are voting Democrat by a wide margin. So no matter what their personal beliefs and values are, they are voting for those who do not share that belief on those issues.
Now in 20 or 30 years things might shift as these people becoming a bigger active voting block, and the boomers die off. And they as a group might totally change their views.
In short, the polls are nice, but just window dressing.
Any specific polls? I along with many of my friends in the say 20-30y/o range are much more pro-2a than I thought. If not outright pro-2a, the rest are not anti gun like Cuomo, Bloomberg, etc. and have asked intelligent questions about firearms.
After Sandy Hook one in particular, who attends a community college in a city with a history of violent crimes, gang violence and shootings realized the campus police force was UNARMED. They asked why and never got a good answer, except that city cops know that in the event they were called to a active shooter incident.