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In the gun debate, a moment or a movement?

• A week after student-led marches around the U.S. called for gun control, both sides in the debate think they are being underestimated.

“It’ll go away,” a 77-year-old gun owner in Virginia said of the protests. “Like all the other times.”

Forty miles away, a high school student had a different take: “They’re looking for us to get bored. We’re not going to get bored.”

The young activists are hoping to drive real change in this fall’s midterm elections and beyond, but that would hinge on reversing years of below-average voter turnout for their age group.