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How might we reach out to the next generation and get them involved in NFOA?
Range Mom:
https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/younger-gun-owners-embrace-concealed-carry
m morton:
NFOA football tail gate party at sporting events to hand out fliers, bumper stickers etc. HS and or Husker football games?? it would suck for our members due to the gun free zone BS but would get the word out..
may be some summer time between school break or between school year "gun related activity's" gun safety classes with 2A info , gun law info etc, skeet shooting , trap shooting , teach reloading class then take them to the range to shoot the ammo they reloaded, hunters safety classes. maybe some online videos about what we do and how laws get made in Neb. and how the system needs people like those in the NFOA posted here.. get them young and they will all ways be interested in guns / hunting and the laws around them etc. then in the gun laws we need. and out of all the feel good BS laws and liberal blow hard agendas.
not sure that OPS would print out fliers with any thing gun related to hand out lol but the smaller city's and towns might. some of the above could be an hour or so once a week for a month activity? i think Omaha has that cox channel 23? i think.. is some sort of community channel not sure if any one watches it lol ... but maybe some air time on it ?
back in the day... 80-84 my high school years we kids got a list of "fun activity's" we could pick from to go do . most cost money to go do. i took judo and trap shooting. that got me in to Pheasant hunting then after my time in the Army i got in to Deer hunting / Archery because shooting deer was to easy with a gun lol
Range Mom:
Those are awesome ideas! Way out of the box thinking. Thank you!!!!!
Captdad17:
A) I realize that parents are going to have a heavier influence on the younger generation than anything we can do as an association. Win over the parents, win over the children.
B) Knowing why we carry every day is more important than knowing that we carry every day. A weapon is just a tool to protect and defend yourself, and if you have no clue how to build a house, what good is a hammer? Focus the effort on teaching the younger generation how to react in an active shooter situation, not just at school (which most school procedures, not all, for handling that is a joke), but also at a gas station, Wal Mart, the mall, movie theater, Starbucks, a concert, the fair, or anywhere else people gather to make a shooting gallery for a disturbed person to enact their evil will. How about a carjacking, robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault? If you offer self-defense training to help people understand why it's a good idea to carry a gun without actually telling them that they need to carry a gun, they'll likely figure it out on their own and a few of them may even get more involved with gun legislature, procedures, policies, awareness, and everything else that goes with it. We (as a society) see stories on the news about shootings and our immediate reaction to to pass stricter guns laws instead of taking the time to learn how to protect ourselves and understand what to do in those types of situations. Most people I talk to about carrying fail to realize the responsibility that comes with it. They just want to be a badass or have some false piece of mind that they're safe. There's more to it than that. They don't even know what would happen if they had to draw their weapon and (God forbid) have to use it. The more people we can reach with that kind of message, the more people will be interested in being responsibly armed Americans.
Just my 2 cents, which I know ain't worth that much.
Range Mom:
That is really excellent insight. There are some great programs in my training inventory on that subject matter. Presented in a firearm-neutral way, I can see that eyes may be open. Combine that with MMorton's contributions, I think we are on to something here.
Thank you!
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