You make a very good point....just where does it stop? I belong to several car clubs and organizations as well as the MVPA.
I do have to say that the MVPA has by far the most restrictions of ANY organization I am familiar with or belong to. Our local car club has three shows each year. Our club belongs to a counsel of car clubs that puts on a huge swap meet....think 800 plus vendor spaces sold and 15,000 plus spectators, for a one day event.
Wheel chocks and such safety choices are strictly up to the owner. NON of the venues, sponsors, cities, clubs or organizations require ANYTHING. Not even our insurance carriers. These things are not even a thought. Our local car club has one official rule....no drugs or alcohol at our events. We discourage burn outs, reckless driving, or other dangerous stuff, but we can not control any one once they leave our premises.
I am glad we live in the midwest.
So...with that said.....whatever we do will never be enough for some. There will always be a nay sayer, nit picker, loop hole finder that will find a hole to walk through and drag the rest of us under. No matter what we do, there will be something we miss. I agree, the more we try, the more it exposes the responsible to danger. So what do we do.....? I have no answer.
As to joining a group, I DO have strong feelings that we should. There IS strength in numbers. A small group is MUCH less likely to prevail than a larger, well funded group. Thirty or forty small, unorganized groups just do NOT have the clout that one larger, well organized group does. I too wish the MVPA would lobby better, respond better, organize better, and most of all let us know what is going on better. Yeah....the legal types want us to keep a low profile and keep us in the dark. I understand...but hate it.
If it was not for the the very brief (and NON informative) blurb put out by the MVPA, AND THIS TOPIC ON THE G, I would know NOTHING about this.
So do not blow this topic away on this site!