From: Neil Francis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Which is why I said don't invite the press.
I disagree - this is the wrong tactic for a convention. Ultimately a
convention is about PR - you are promoting your subject to both your peers
and anyone else who is interested. If UK shooters want to be seen as an
even weirder bunch of people than that are already perceived to be hold a
closed shop gun rights convention and include all the issues previously
mentioned on the agenda. Then wait for it to be leaked to the press and
allow even the most junior hack to have field day. Of course I'm assuming
that any rag would be even bothered to give more than a column inch of
space to it but one way to make sure is to hold the convention in 'secret'.
>I have to say quite honestly that while I understand the concerns
>of people about self-defence ......tiny minority of the shooting public,
>... I'm sorry, but that is the political reality
>at the moment.
Forget the shooting public and any political reality - Its the general
public and the actual reality that we should be concerned with. The public
don't like guns, the public don't like shooters because they have guns.
They don't want more people to have guns and they certainly don't want
people to be able to have guns to shoot at people in the context of self
defence.
Neil Francis
Trowbridge, UK
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Conventions are not about PR, not in my experience anyway. They're
about sharing ideas. They're PR inasmuch as you are conducting
PR on the audience, but not on the general public. Huge conventions
for people like the Labour Party perhaps, but not something like
this.
The Gun Rights Convention in the US is not something covered in
the press there.
I don't honestly care about the press perception. It will get
a couple of column inches in the back of the paper, whether that
is pro or anti matters not. Realistically I don't think a convention
such as this would be anywhere near the size of the NRA convention
or anything like that. There needs to be some sort of planning
and coordination going on and sharing of ideas on a larger scale
than at present.
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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