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December 9th, 2009, 09:30 PM #11
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by KendricksonOriginally Posted by -JD-
- I do not believe the organization itself has matured enough. I feel that it must better organize to get itself moving in the right general direction before we can consider opening up that level of involvement.
- Because of the previous point, I imagine PAFOA would quite literally be incapable of handling the massive overhead such a structure would entail until a lot of other prerequisites are met. If we're being perfectly honest and self-deprecating, we haven't even had the time and resources to get a reliable blog running yet. There's simply no way we can handle a membership organization with potentially tens of thousands of members.
Once PAFOA reaches a state where it is stable, organized, and has some momentum, I believe it is likely that PAFOA will begin adding more layers of management that may involve the concepts mentioned.Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:31 PM #12
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by max384Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:32 PM #13
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by Shawn.L
- The ability to register and login to a "PAFOA Account".
- The ability to link your "PAFOA Account" to your forum account.
- The ability to provide an email address, a real address and a phone number.
- The ability to control which ways PAFOA is allowed to contact you, and about which topics you want to be contacted.
For future generations of the platform, I could see it being very useful for members to optionally provide more demographic information such as birth dates, occupations, skills, interests, etc.
The idea is that if I can lay the foundation for a centralized "membership" system outside of a third-party system (the forum) that I can't program much with, the sky is the limit for what we can do.Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:33 PM #14
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by Shawn.LDan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:33 PM #15
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by Shawn.LDan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:35 PM #16
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by steve762Originally Posted by Floyd
- Educate yourself as much as possible about as many things as possible. One of the reasons that our movement has been so successful is because of a highly educated and highly motivated user base. The three topics I think gun owners need to educate themselves the most on are: a) The law: The more each gun owner understands about the laws that exist, the laws that are proposed, the better they will be at educating other gun owners, non-gun owners, politicians, and the press. b) Politics: Gun owners really, really need to understand how politics actually works. Even in my very limited experience I have quickly learned that it is ugly, frustrating, and has the ability to make you lose faith in the world. That is however not an excuse to check out. It is the system we live in and I strongly believe that if we can learn how to use that system we can accomplish our goals. c) Public Relations: It's pretty well understood that anti-gun forces have free reign of the media. Whatever they say is taken as fact and will be reprinted over and over. The only way we can combat this is by challenging ourselves to take advantage of every opportunity we have in the media. In my opinion this means we need to present a public image that is professional, informed, and works to maximize public opinion in our favor.
- Become a leader, even if that is only within the context of your group of friends. The death of political action largely comes from apathy and gun owners are no exception (some argue we're some of the worst offenders.) This movement needs as many people as it can possibly find to say "Hey, guys, we really need to get off our butts and go to this rally." Don't wait for someone else to tell you what to do, look for something to do and work with other gun owners to see if your ideas have potential.
- Become active! Like above, we just need people to become more active. Last year we packed at least a thousand people into the capitol building for our rally, my hope is that this year we can beat that number. If our movement acted as much as it talked, I don't think there would be a gun control law on the books.
- Pay attention to PAFOA for "job openings" in the future. My guess is that as a result of a lot of the discussion we've been having, PAFOA is going to start putting calls out for volunteers in areas where we need help.
Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:36 PM #17
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by PA RiflemanDan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:37 PM #18
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by BmaninmifcoDan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:38 PM #19
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by BmaninmifcoDan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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December 9th, 2009, 09:39 PM #20
Re: PAFOA: Past, Present & Future - Now with Question & Answer Time
Originally Posted by MrBi11
As far as action, I see PAFOA organizing only in Pennsylvania for the foreseeable future. As noted above, Other states would be outside of our mission and attempting to play ball on the national level would make us a small fish in a large pond where our ROI would probably be a fraction of what we can get done by focusing on PA alone.Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
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