[Djarum]

Yet another 2nd Amendment group? I really don't see the benefit of dividing efforts when we have the TRT.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Yet another 2nd Amendment group? I really don't see the benefit of dividing efforts when we have the TRT."

Hey, it works for the socialists. Besides which, if one is a member of BOTH, how does it divide effort??? Methinks it actually MULTIPLIES EFFECT.

[lowbridge]

Yet another 2nd Amendment group? I really don't see the benefit of dividing efforts when we have the TRT.

Oh, they're welcome to join us! :-)

[SUSSA]

Yet another 2nd Amendment group? I really don't see the benefit of dividing efforts when we have the TRT.

The Network is a place to coordinate the efforts of all the 2A groups and for people who are interested in working to protect the 2A to find others who are laboring in the cause. Most of us who are working to protect the 2A are members of several groups.

Some groups lobby and politic. Some groups educate. Some groups do a combination of these things. The beauty of joining and working in multiple groups is the multiplying effect of your membership.

The anti-civil rights forces have done this for years. They count the membership of all their groups like there was no overlap. In fact, most members of radical anti-civil rights groups like HCA (or whatever they are calling themselves today) are also members of other extremist anti- civil rights groups like the VPC. More than 90% of SUSSA's members are members of at least two other groups including the TRT.

No single group can do everything. I've never heard a leader of a pro-Second Amendment group say there are too many groups. They welcome the help, and in my experience, have been very encouraging to new groups.

I foresee the Task Force becoming a central point for people to gather information, find 2A groups that are doing work they want to get involved in, and a place for ALL 2A groups to let Freepers know what they are working on at the moment. I would like to see every pro-Second Amendment group from the NRA on down involved in the Task Force so we can increase our effectiveness and not duplicate efforts. We need to take a page from the anti-civil rights extremists. There is a multiplying effect that comes from multiple groups coordinating their efforts that can never be matched by just one group.

[Mercuria]

Networking. Not dividing.

[Frohickey]

Yet another 2nd Amendment group? I really don't see the benefit of dividing efforts when we have the TRT.

Simple. For the areas where there is no active TRT members. I don't think there are any TRT members in California... at least, the northern part of it.

[Nick Danger]

Yet another 2nd Amendment group? I really don't see the benefit of dividing efforts when we have the TRT.

My theory is that the world is going to end in a giant battle between the people who seek to avoid duplication of effort, and the people who are trying to get something done.

I was in a meeting one time where one of the sales managers from a large computer company was complaining to the president of the company that another division was bidding on the same deal he was. The president's answer was, "I hope one of you wins."

I think that's the attitude we should have here. Let's hope that one of the groups wins. "Consolidating efforts" and "putting it all under one leadership" makes sure that if the leadership makes a mistake, it's a big mistake and there's no one else to cover it.