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Abené Clayton

‘It’s our turn’: gun-safety advocates are riding a ‘seismic’ wave to US legislatures

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Tennessee state representative Justin Pearson in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 8 August 2025. Photograph: Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images

A new generation of young political leaders is gaining power in the US by using their personal experience with gun violence to push for reforms they say the US is ready for.

Their ascent is part of a nearly decade-long shift, from gun violence prevention being a third-rail issue in politics that was rarely spoken about on campaign trails, to one that candidates, most of them Democrats, are now running – and winning – on.

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