Thread: The anti gun lobby

The problem is that trying to get broad based democratic representation is probably not achievable. All of our efforts in the past have been along this line. Trying to keep everybody happy is self destructive.

The model I proposed isn't very democratic, nor is it representative to start with. If a good job gets done it will become representative. Initial communication with police MPs etc would be by a small group of affected persons wishing to meet. This group reports back to all user groups.

While not necessarily selected from each user group outside parties will have no choice but to consider that group representative, if the information flow is organised and professional.

The key factors are the professionalism of the members of the group. To be seen as disaffected emotional minorities, losing their ability to play with their dangerous toys is not productive. We have no appeal to the police/govt or the public if that is our response.

It is not about being nice, its about building relationships and requiring accountability. Its a lot harder to screw people you know and respect, who have a good public image....

Personally I think its too tall an expectation.... we would need around 4-6 suitable people in each electorate who could contribute a lot of their time for beneficiaries that would probably not appreciate the effort and time required....

We don't want another beauracratic national heirachical structure, we want local level autonomy but with co-ordinated approaches to issues... and good organised information flows...

COLFO potentially could reorganise in that way maybe... huge asks... money time and people