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Nebraska Students for Concealed Carry
omaharj:
Just my opinions
I think the NFOA should be involved in this. The benefit 10 years down the road is almost limitless. If the next generation of educated Nebraskans has been presented the facts and are allowed to come to their own conclusions,our cause can only benefit.
However, I would caution that an educational approach, more than confrontational, would be the wisest way to move forward, at least initially. Going into the lion's den,(Academia is led by the ultra-liberals),their initial defense will be to portray gun activists as aggressive zealots. When they are faced with calm,logical,presentation of the facts;their position will become tenuous. Their only defense is hysterical passion. Take away the doomsday predictions and they don't have a leg to stand on. Beat on truth all you want,it still shines through at the end. The students will (mostly) come around. RJ
metaldoc:
Kudos to W11B for the energy and passion combined with good common sense he is exhibiting in furthering this cause.
Excellent job designing that flyer!
NE Bull:
It doesn't happen often :P, but I must concur with omaharj on this one ;) Educating the naysayers would be a best approach, especially at the beginning. Gain their respect as well rounded, educated, diplomatic, young persons. Do not stoop to their level of emotional protests.
I'll be honest here, I am sort of the fence on this subject, thus my reason for not responding, yet. Would I like responsible young adults to be able to carry on campus, should they feel they need to, and have some sort of training? SURE, but as I have stated previously, sometimes I am skeptical of there being very many responsible young adults in the college scene (the papers/police sure paint a pretty dim picture.) That being said, I keep thinking about my daughter entering college (sooner than I am willing to admit to myself), and wish she would be able to defend herself, mostly to and from classes, etc. with something more than a cellphone or pepper spray. Soooo.....
I support the idea, now I guess I am asking for y'all to show me why I should support you. That may sound a little harsh, not meant to be, it's just that I have seen this, and other issues, pushed too hard, too fast, which caused the opposite effect.
Take all the Open Carry rallies for instance. Sure they garnered the cause allot of attention. But in the end, either nothing was accomplished other than give the cause a bit of a back eye, (as far as Joe Public was concerned) or as in Kali, the right was legislated out all together. So needless to say, I cringe at the thought of public 'rallies' Sometimes I think we need to step back and look at things from the other side's point of view.
I guess what I would like to see is a semi-formal meeting of reps from the NSCC and NFOA with the University of Nebraska powers that be. Present them with rational facts they can't refute (you seem to have plenty of gooduns listed above. What would be sweet is to have any facts on cases of assault (sexual, deadly, potentially fatal or otherwise) on and around UN property, or any other places of higher learning within the state. Brings me to another point (something a fellow blogger 'TJ' turned me to recently ), get some ladies involved! (here I go beating this horse again) but a woman's opinion can be very influential. (ask any married or otherwise engaged male :-[ ) Also, Odds are everyone/someone on that board will have a daughter, his little princess, and the thought of her not being able to defend herself against a sexual predator (on his campus) will sicken him to no end, keeping him awake at night. Many state legislators turned to the ladies' view to remove the idea of CCW being a bunch of cowboys rolling the streets looking for trouble into the 'little lady' packin a lil snubby in her purse 'in-case something should ever happen'. Getting folks to that neutral point ; not passionately for the idea, but not exactly against it either, can be the smallest hurdle with greater potential for gain.
As you stated, you are in the early stages of things, and it will be a long uphill battle, so as all the great Generals have done, attempt to make peace with the enemy, all the while gathering intelligence, enlisting troops, readying the artillery, and surrounding them from all sides, removing any avenue of retreat! >:D
Ok that's my advice/opinion worth about $.02 for the day. Take it or leave it.
Dtrain323i:
Count me in to help out with Metro CC. I don't really have the time to be a leader but I can certainly help out.
wallace11bravo:
By all means, this organization is still pretty fresh, and there are a lot of decisions that should not be left up to only myself (Why I need to get some campus directors up in here!)
I wholeheartedly agree that education is the best method, especially for those who are completely unaware on the issue. I would love to hold meeting with faculty and NFOA reps, but that is still a little ways out.
For the time being I am concentrating on recruiting support. I distributed 15 of the two-page sheets shown above today, of course there are those that are forever naysayers, I do not argue, I just apologize for taking their time and walk away. I am getting pretty good at spotting those who look like they would support the cause, even among the faculty (boots, hunting camo, and ACU backpacks are huge giveaways).
Again, I need to build a good support base before any action is taken, and that is the intention with my current actions and with the upcoming empty holster protest. (to be honest, and again I do not think I should be the only one making these decisions, I was/am planning on omitting the "holster" and "protest" portions, and just having a few students at the unions distributing handouts and discussing with those that are interested)
Meeting set for 5:00pm March 25th at the UNL City Campus Union, near coffee bar. THIS IS NOT A PROTEST, just a meeting, it will be fairly informal and we will be discussing and refining our plan of action and goals, refining guidelines for conduct, establishing a taskorg, and discussing plans for upcoming events.
http://www.facebook.com/events/192957944145947/
Keep in mind, you do not have to be a student to participate. If a NFOA rep would like to attend, I would much appreciate it.
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