So far this year there have been more than 10 mass shootings in America every week.

The tragic pace is on a par with last year. Mass shootings are so frequent they're

often barely mentioned on network news. While most Americans say gun policies will be important

to their vote in the midterm election, people are still divided on gun control versus gun rights.

This is Let's Find Common Ground. I'm Ashley Melntite and I'm Richard Davies. Our guests on

today's show are part of the school's shooting generation Gen Z. Each grew up with active

shooter drills and concerns that their school could be next. Today's students Sophie Holtzman

and Jackson Hoppy are both sophomores at George Washington University.

They're also joint vice presidents of their colleges chapter of Bridge USA,

an organization that brings students of different ideologies together to have open discussions

on politics and seek a path to common ground. Sophie Holtzman and Jackson Hoppy,

welcome to Let's Find Common Ground. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. We wanted to talk to you now

because the school year has begun. How important or divisive is the issue of gun reform on campus?

Sophie first. I think that it's both of utmost importance and also of utmost divisiveness. I think

that GW could not be more politically polarized in terms of where people stand on various issues

and it's really important that we come together on things and that's why we're here today.

Jackson. Yeah, I can completely agree with Sophie. I think that the issue that we're seeing after

school shootings is that there's no solutions. If there are, they conflict with other people's

solutions. The important thing is that we need to find common ground to reduce this massive issue.

If we don't, it's just going to keep happening. It's the same cycle over and over again of

nothing happening, no change being made. After the shootings that we've seen this summer and in

spring, I think it's time for us to come together and come up with the solution.

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