August is Shooting Sports Month, and it's important to remember that the freedom we're celebrating this month isn't just for us ... it's for the future. The Second Amendment is America's 1st Freedom, the part of our Bill of Rights that secures the sum of it. So it's only natural that the editor in chief of NRA's America's 1st Freedom, Frank Miniter, sat down with Jennifer A. Grossman (who goes by “JAG”), the CEO of The Atlas Society. She's dedicated her life to teaching young adults about America's freedoms, centering around Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism ... specifically as explained in Atlas Shrugged.
You may be asking yourself how a novel penned in 1957 can shape the way we reach out to young Americans ... but that's only if you've never read it. Atlas Shrugged is one of those pieces of art that doesn't just imitate life, it causes life to imitate it. It's a complex, thoughtful, visionary work whose central message has been repeatedly played out in history. That message? That freedom exercised by individuals will create a society that is both free and functional. (If you somehow missed Atlas Shrugged in your own philosophical journey, you can read it right now for free here.)
In this video, Grossman explains that too often today’s pro-freedom groups don’t know how to engage the new generation. The shooting sports, for example, are more popular than ever, but too many of our nation's young people haven't been exposed to them, or to the moral and philosophical underpinnings of the Second Amendment.
