You done good. If you start lecturing them, they’re going to stop up their ears. But if they start thinking - and I think a lot of millenials (and even a lot of park rangers charged with enforcing this horrible stuff) are beginning to think - who knows what will happen?
They were a thoroughly politically indoctrinated generation, but enough of the American spirit somehow crept in that they’re a little annoyed by this overreach. That is, they never thought before that this country is not about the success of “the government,” it’s about the freedom and happiness and success of its citizens - such as them.
Oh I have been a part time student at a local community college and have dealt with these types before. Their self absorption can be an Achilles`s heel.
What I heard was “my trail”, “my time to commune with mother nature”, but at least they seemed to sympathize with the perception that others were like them, being denied “their park time”.