United States – -(AmmoLand.com)-Â One of the most important things Second Amendment supporters can do to preserve freedom is to make sure that respect and support for our freedoms is passed down to future generations. Thankfully, there is a new generation of Second Amendment defenders arising, thanks to the work of a number of organizations.
Students for Concealed Carry has been one of these organizations. Perhaps the most prominent voice to come from it – albeit not without some controversy – is Antonia Okafor. When anti-Second Amendment extremists are trying to paint defenders of the Second Amendment with certain terms, Okafor can readily shoot that down, and has the potential to make those extremists look like liars, but also could provoke them into doing something stupid.
In fact, Ms. Okafor is just part of something we are seeing in some other groups that support the Second Amendment, notably Turning Point USA: The next generation of Second Amendment defenders is diverse. We’re seeing African Americans like Ms. Okafor, Candace Owens (former communications director at TPUSA), 2018 and 2020 U.S. Senate candidate John James, rapper/fashion designer Kanye West, and NRATV’s Colin Noir. Hispanic Americans like TPUSA’s Anna Paulina and NRATV’s Gabby Franco are also prominently defending the Second Amendment.
Even the Washington Post had to acknowledge that there are members of the LGBTQ community who support our right to keep and bear arms. Just the fact that one member of that community works on the NRA’s social media will start conversations, and those are opportunities to change minds.
To put it bluntly, Turning Point USA has been doing very well in providing a platform and a voice that is getting a message that includes support of the Second Amendment out to people in communities that traditional Second Amendment advocacy has had difficulty connecting with. In this sense, they have put the NRA to shame.
This organization is also proving that getting the message to those walks of life is possible. It takes hard work, hustle, patience, and sacrificing preconceived notions and perceptions, but it is very doable. The NRA would be well served to poach some of TPUSA’s talent in this field, not to mention hiring some translators to reflect the current reality of multi-lingual ballots. The failure to develop effective outreach in those communities is something Wayne LaPierre and NRA brass need to be held accountable for.
This is not to say NRA has been ignoring the next generation. NRA University is quietly establishing a presence on campus, even as it has been overshadowed by Students for Concealed Carry and Turning Point USA. This helps prepare young activists to defend the Second Amendment. The National Rifle Association also features the NRA Collegiate Coalition and employs Campus Coordinators. While many of those involved in these programs are not household names like Ms. Okafor yet, you can bet they will be involved in the defense of our freedoms in the future.
Defending the Second Amendment in school can be a tough row to hoe, and you can bet hostile administrators and teachers will look for excuses to wreck the future of a high school or college student for supporting the Second Amendment (the method may be something unrelated and way in the past). However, looking over these groups of young pro-Second Amendment activists, it is safe to assume that that the fight for the Second Amendment is in very good hands for the future.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
Scared white Christian Fox News viewers on the right, thanks for all the profits buying overpriced guns every time a Democrat is in office! Thanks for believing the bovine excrement the NRA spews, it’ll pay for my kids college! Thanks for being skeered that Liberals are coming for yet guns, keep watching Fox and slurping up the lies Trump vomits daily upon our Constitution! Oh and make sure you open carry so those of us who conceal know who to Target first!!
I am a gun owner, support 2A and RKBA, and additionally believe that the right to keep reasonable arms for home defense is an unenumerated right protected by the Ninth Amendment. As to the concerns outlined in this article, I would advise to focus pro-RKBA efforts toward non-partisan organizations, which are almost non-existent right now. You see, I am also a liberal Democrat, and for reasons beyond the scope of this discussion, will never vote Republican nor support a right wing organization. All of the organizations mentioned in the article are right wing, and that includes the NRA. The NRA… Read more »
I’m with you on the second amendment but I think Trump is stumbling on it a little bit I don’t know if I trust him all the way.
The other thing I always find humorous is anti 2A people always refer to the word HUNTING and it has nothing to do with hunting. I also feel that law abiding citizens should be allowed to have as much fire power as military.
I’m a firm believer in the second amendment ,it’s like this in ww2 Japanese general yomamoto is said to say Japan could not invade the US because there would be someone with a weapon behind every blade of grass.That is why this is why we have not been invaded yet.
I am a firm believer in the second amendment. I am also not Republican nor am i Democrat. I am an individual who likes to know all the facts. I do not blindly follow any political party. Neither does the second amendment. It is written for all Americans to protect themselves. It also keeps our shores safe from foreign invasion. As long as we are able to protect our family and communities we need not worry about sneak attacks from our enemies
Ever notice that the main stream media and leftists treat 2A supporters exactly like they do Christians? Both groups are demonized and to roughly the same extent.
The 2A s a god given right. No support necessary. You can’t legally take that right away! You could say a new generation of pro U.S. Constitution youth are growing. Or, since those against the U.S. Constitution are communist politicians, communist lawyers, and communist useful idiots, you could say a new generation of anti communists are growing.
To those young and upcoming defenders of our GOD GIVEN RIGHT(S) 2A must beware of the people who want to take our rights away:
DEMORATS, LIBERALS, SOCIALISTS, TERRORIST POLITICANS AND A HANDFUL OF REPUBLUCANS ARE THE RUINATIIN OF OUR FREEDINS, CONSTITUTION AND OUR AMENDANMENTS. CAREFULLY RESEARCH AND ONLY VOTE FOR THOSE POLTICIANS WHO DEFEND OUR FREEDOMS AND GOD GIVEN RIGHTS!!
TRUMP 2020 TRUMP2020 TRUMP2020
They’re trap and skeet shooters. Are they Fudds?
‘Cause Fudds aren’t Second Amendment supporters. Not really.
If you don’t support owning, carrying and using handguns, DAILY, you ain’t no Second Amendment supporter.
Not really.
They rescinded the Harvard admission of Kyle Kushev, the Parkland shooting survivor who is pro 2 A.
Yet the Parkland pencil neck geek who is anti 2 A has a spot at Harvard.
In spite of grades so low be got accepted nowhere else.
I worry for the future until I look at my kids and their friends.
You will never see a better mannered, well dressed, gun shooting, fishing, lacrosse playing, snap chatting bunch of kids.
All headed to University or the Navy.
These are the future leaders of America.
Along with the kids pictured above in the article