Totally 100% agree. Here's the thing for some of you posters of a certain age, the whole "you damn snowflake kids and your vidya games are ruining EVERYTHING!" angle doesn't fly anymore. You can't confuse every young person as a millennial. I am what I consider a Proto-Millennial. I'm old enough to have lived through the 80s and witnessed a lot of the lifestyle Gen Xers through an elementary kid's eyes. I'm 38 years old.
The youngest Millennials are in their mid 20s. They have just basically stopped being kids. Give them a break for not knowing how to navigate the world since conception. Many of the younger ones of my generation have never known a time we weren't at war or were the first to step up and go off to the sandbox right out of highschool. Many have hit their adult stride in a world that was ravaged by a financial downturn not of their making but forced to react to it. Saddled with the debt of an education our parents (many of you all) promised us would lead to a rich and better life, we feel a bit jaded and having every ill of the world heaped upon us for no other reason that either A) existing at all or B) at the very least being the byproducts of how we were raised.
In time, studies have shown, the Millennial generation will most likely lean more conservatively as we are skeptical of everything from capitalism to the government because both have screwed us. That may not mean pro-gun but Gen Z will most likely want to burn the house down, to be honest. Watch out for those guys. Gen Y may be "whiny" but Gen Z is going to want to be revolutionary according to a lot of studies on the first batch getting ready to vote for the first time. Gen Y is much more in line, as time goes on, as being a generation of compromise.
That said, we like what we like. We don't hunt or shoot skeet like Baby Boomers or the Greatest Generation so we don't buy bolt guns and shotguns with 30" barrels. Why is that? Well, I guess y'all didn't take us enough when you were raising us
So we like military style "tacticool" weapons? Well golly gee. I wonder why that is. 18 years of watching them used in a war and, YES, video games that they are depicted in. None of you older fellas have a SAA or lever gun because of Gunsmoke? No one into 1911s because your dad brought one back from WWII? There isn't a significant population that bought a 92fs because Mel Gibson ran around like a crazed mulleted psychopath in Lethal Weapon? Media drives sales. Young people are targeted by the media.
If Remington wants to survive it needs to 1) not make garbage and 2) make guns that people with mature and disposable incomes want to buy. It's not a generational thing. It's not OUR responsibility to make sure we buy stuff we don't like so that it can be around for you to buy.
Anyway, I apologize. I don't mean come across as harsh, but I sure some of you all don't mean come off equally as cranky old men blaming others for the problems of the world