Will a burst of new, young energy break an old impasse over gun laws?
by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
Feb 22, 2018
4 minutes
For days now, the airwaves and social media have been filled with the voices of young people, thick with righteousness and anger, vowing never again.
But will the student-led protests against gun violence dramatically change the politics and lead the president and Congress to act in a way that other explosions of fury and grief - after Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino, Orlando, Las Vegas - have not?
It will take time - not the next few days or weeks, but months and even years - to know whether last week's slaughter of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
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