May I suggest you and the board consider the following?
The SE MI. area is where the bulk of the population lives, it only makes sense to focus there and use the experience gained there to enrich our activities in the other areas.
I'm always open to hearing suggestions.
I agree there is much to be had in the Metro-Detroit area, but I refuse to neglect the rest of the State. We've been having much activity in the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek area, in large credit to a new, energized volunteer event coordinator who is focused on those cities. I will happily take an energized volunteer wherever I can find one, in or out of metro-D.
We should establish a Family friendly media events coordinator(s) for every area [OC/CC & PFZ carry will never be fully excepted by the general public until they see families carrying legally holstered pistols]. As with many things in life it is easy to pick at a group of guys as thugs with "tough guy syndrome" It is a little harder to fault a group of women, men and children all gathered together to enjoy a lunch or dinner, a fund raiser for JDF, Cancer research, St. Jude's, children hospital, a game of softball, apple seed shoot, bowling etc... I hope you & others can see the wisdom in this?
Sure, I can see the wisdom in having family events. How do I put handguns onto the hips of women? My wife goes to events and when she does, she wears a firearm. I'm not capable not desiring of
forcing women to attend AND carry. We've had dinners before. Women attended those dinners. I don't recall seeing many of them carrying though. I see how having more women carry could help the cause, but how do you propose we make that happen exactly? It's a good vision, I'm having difficulty seeing the implementation. Maybe you could help?
Establish a Detroit specific event coordinator with several deputy's to assist.
Establish a Downriver specific event coordinator with a deputy(s) to assist.
Are you volunteering to fill one of these posts? We have plenty of ideas in this organization. Sadly what we lack is people of action. Are you volunteering to be one of these people of action?
These area's are in my honest opinion completely under served by us (and others) at this time. With good planning and follow through, these areas could yield many new members. The areas mentioned here are experiencing rapid rises in crime in conjunction with slashed emergency services (police/fire etc...) Many people that live there are becoming more concerned for their safety. In my area [Downriver] the majority of people have always been pro 2A to the best of my knowledge, and are painfully aware of the limitations of their police.
I agree, events yield members. That is totally 100% correct.
We have many areas (not just metro-D) that are underserved by us. We will serve the areas we can with the volunteers we have. If I have a volunteer in Alpena who sets up an event twice a month there, should I turn him away and say, "I'm sorry, we're focussing on metro-D""? As mentioned previously, our problem is the lack of volunteers. You see how popular and hopping this thread is, I'm sure? Will
you hep us? Maybe you can help us make your vision a reality?
PS. Some forum reading software (like Tap-a-talk, which is used by many to read this forum on their phone) gets a bit cranky when you use a '[' or ']' outside of a tag (like to bold). You might want to avoid using them in future post.
