Murray, in my opinion the rule proposal as it has been submitted to the AMA is a poor one. I have suggested what I would do regarding this issue. I feel that what you as a member of the NSRCA BOD decided that every contestant at an AMA Pattern event must do is overly burdensome both to comply with and enforce. I feel there are better, simpler ways to address the issue. In my opinion, the NSRCA BOD has rushed these proposals in a last minute attempt to just do something. And in this case it is not a good solution.

We have all talked about incidents we have seen. Why not take the time to try to actually document these incidents, properly analyze the actual causes and then come up with a trial solution? Take the time to present something to the community for a proper evaluation rather then this rather poor survey and modification process that has been executed.

I'm sorry, I just don't think that a good enough job has been done on this particular proposal to put it in to our rules.