It was nice to meet you at the rally Boris, but I gotta ask... why do you need GOAL to help you with this? I sent an email to every gun owner in my address book and called or texted those I am closest to. I wish more were able to attend but like Eddie Coyle pointed out, there was only two days notice. I sit in judgement of no one. Most people do what they can when it is important to them.
I also heard people bitching, saying that people wouldn't attend unless it was a Saturday and there was less traffic. Well let me tell you, traffic sucked, and I work on Saturdays and still took the day off. Traffic was so bad, I was sitting at a light on Kneeland and a detail Boston cop said right to me " They have traffic in this city totally ****ed up today !!" I handed him an ice cold water and said " Hope your shift ends soon"
My point is, why do I need GOAL to tell me what I should do ? I am a big boy. I really appreciate all those folks do which is why the first thing I did when I made it to the rally was walk up to the GOAL booth and made a cash donation.
Loved your sign by the way.
All these comments are not meant to hurt anyone, we just need to do better, much better. I know some people who don't even own guns who came.
Why do we need GOAL or NES? These are rallying points. We are not going to congregate at random at the same place at the same time. When the news broke, NES already had few hundred posts and this thread was 250'000 views. There is no other resource like it. If it's happening in MA (or retired bird said it) it's on NES It's a great forum to vet ideas, to organize etc.
If GOAL needs ideas, there are plenty to be found here and they don't need to implement them all, there are people willing to help if they can formulate what the idea is or may be just voice the problem. In some cases it's just coordinating other volunteers.
We should do a competition which club can bring most people as % to the rally. We need to do better next time. Let's do it.