It’s a narrative many news outlets keep returning to. Young people, overwhelmed by the horror of mass school shootings are taking society by the hand and leading the nation to a future where there will be no mass shootings, no guns.

Finally, the narrative goes in the hands of many media figures, young people will accomplish what generations of small groups of activists have been unable to – doing away with the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

Only the picture really isn’t that simple. Some TV talking heads might structure their reporting to avoid this reality, but the truth is that young people don’t all think the same. Not all students support gun bans. Not all students blame guns for the actions of the shooter.

Some students even learn to be responsible gun owners through their own schools.

According to Associated Press, citing the National Shooting Sports Foundation, there are an estimated 5,000 sport shooting teams at high schools and universities around the country. The sport’s popularity has not been waning in the aftermath of the Florida high school shooting. In some parts of the country, it is actually making great strides as a competitive alternate to other sports.

The popularity of sport shooting really should come as no surprise. It has a place in history – and in the Olympics. Still some would be surprised to know how popular it has become with young people, because of the laser-like focus on youthful anti-gun activists.

As A.P. pointed out, the schism between young people mirrors the schism between adults – and it is geographic. Young people, like adults from rural areas, have a fundamentally different view of guns, among other things – even if the views of rural youth aren’t going to find their way into the popular media narrative about activists and their opposition to gun ownership. That is true in North Dakota and similar Midwestern states where guns are considered everyday tools in country living and where it is only natural that guns and sporting would be a logical pairing.

It’s a good thing that young people have disparate positions on the topic. Just as with adults, it is when groupthink supplants individual perspectives that the most atrocious violations of rights occurs.