Kailey

Why do we go get training?

Why do we spend money once we get the first gun on a better gun the next time and better optics and a better holster?

And we all have the graveyard box of holsters because we've kept upgrading.

And it all goes back to the fundamental question of why.

And that, to me, is the piece that needs to be addressed.

It needs to be revisited and revisited often because...

We're in a very interesting time as a country, but we're also in a very interesting time as a 2A community where we are seeing a new group of people come in, whether that is college students graduating and going out on their own and leaving the nest, so to speak, or whether that is moms or just...

or just somebody who feels unsafe in their environment.

So while we're getting these new gun owners, we're also losing a lot of people that would normally be getting into hunting.

We're losing the generational hunters.

And so if those two things are happening simultaneously,

What is the underlying reasons behind those things?

What is the motivating factor for the individual?

And I think a lot of it comes to

We have as a society wanted to victimize and villainize the traditional gun owners.

Oh, they're old white men or oh, they're they're they're those gun crazy people or oh, they are.

Oh, they're they're LARPing or whatever the.

the discount phrases to reject an entire group of Americans when in reality, they're husbands, they're fathers, they're mothers, they're daughters, they're brothers and sisters.

They're normal, everyday Americans, but we want to treat them like a different class for often political reasons.

And so, sorry, I went...