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Posted on 03/27/2008 1:37:15 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Where in the 2nd Amendment did it specify a location?
Here’s a newsflash; criminals don’t care about rules against carrying guns on park lands or anywhere else.
It's part of a "living document", remember? It therefore means whatever a panel of unelected, ABA approved judges say it means. [/sarc]
There’a always a reason why our constitution is full of —— when you’re a leftist. Of course that’s until you want to advocate for the overthrow of the U.S. Government, and then it’s a sacred document handed down by saints.
Second Amendment, why those slave owning bastards!
Good for me, but not for thee! People like her should have this sort of "doublethink" hypocrisy thrown in their face all the time. And as a "daddy" type, I am so through listening to "mommy" types as a source of morality or wisdom.
See if they think they might need a weapon when our tent is surrounded by Javalina or a Mountain Lion.
Or the dozens of illegals that traverse the park area.
We did have one guy about 20 years back that stirred everything up, he was transferred before someone fed him to the bear. Ever since the park service treats the community with kid gloves, honestly.
We still have a bunch of old retired gold miners who hate them and fight any proposal they put forth. We have a tourist boat (holland america) that brings a boat load of tourists here for 2 hr tour all summer long. H.A. employs at least 30 locals of the 100 in this economically depressed river community. All the beggars here complain how H.A. doesn't do enough for community????? So last year Park Service & Holland America were getting a grant to build nice new visitors center. Entire community was against it, said it would change their lifestyle, so it never happened. They'll build it in some other community downriver. I never figured that one out.
I'm sure you have some gun ho park rangers but you also have alot of good ones too that look the otherway everytime.
If the park is so peaceful and tranquil, why the body armor, or for that matter, why the weapons?
Good point.
From article: Greg Shimek of Lakewood is a gun collector. He has donated money to defend the right of people to carry firearms, but he doesn’t think that right includes places like Mount Rainier.
So we gotta gun collector who doesn't like people carrying guns in "places like Mount Rainier." What is wrong with this picture? How about the 2nd Amendment and the right to protect yourself against man and beast(s)?
Right, I forgot that point. Although those Javalina are pretty scary.
I don’t know any park rangers down here. My take on it is that those ranks would be a very ripe pick for those who are nearly insane when it comes to the environment. Along with that world view comes the anti-gun baggage.
I’ll be the first to acknowledge I may be off base with those comments. It’s just that I have watched how rabid most concerns have become that have anything at all to do with the environment.
I like protecting nature to a certain extent. I don’t like people verging on mental illness over it.
“splits local residents like the icy fissures that crease the flanks of Mount Rainier”
Please tell me this reporter volunteers and does not get paid to write.
2 park rangers back, the ranger had to rescue green peace people down river. He hated them as much as any of us do.
“But such crimes are rare, said park officials.”
Tell that to the murder victims. To them, the crime rate is 100% and they are forever dead. Maybe having a gun would not have helped them, but involuntary and unilateral disarmament of people is stupid and criminal.
I would suspect your ‘appointments’ up there wouldn’t be as easily persued as the plum spots down here are. There’s a certain rugged ‘type’ that needs to fill your positions. Perhaps that’s somewhat off base, but I would suspect the real problem candidates would seek lower 48 state appointments.
I’m glad to hear you still have some reasoned folks doing the work up there. And I might be surprised at the ones down here too. What with all the activists these days, I’m just somewhat skeptical.
“...47 U.S. senators asked Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne to revise existing laws to allow park visitor to carry firearms in the parks when allowed by state law.”
Why do 47 senators need to ask some federal fascist bureaucrat to change a law?
I guess our elected lawmakers don’t write law anymore. And where does it say in the constitution that unelected bureaucrats can write law? Guess that’s missing in my copy. Well, sieg heil, everyone, the fascist functionaries have taken over.
It should apply doubly to national parks given they are federal not state property.
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