Posted on 10/28/2009 7:50:11 AM PDT by Still Thinking
“I think the writer of this hand-wringing diatribe might want to open a dictionary once in a while:”
I understand what you are saying, however in many cases there are differences between dictionary definitions and legal definitions. In some places people get arrested for brandishing if someone spots their CCW.
it is. I just cut and pasted it. His vocabulary is as good as his logic.
National park service oversees parks, widerness areas,recreational areas, monuments, and historic sites.
There will be a lot of complicated issues with this.
Example; Grand Canyon NP is land ‘leased’ to the feds.
I used to work at the Gateway Arch in st louis. I was armed at work, and I was armed to and from work. When I left st louis, my pov had three bullet holes in it.
Idiocy from the reporter: “Wyoming is one of the many states that allows citizens to openly carry a legally registered weapon”
I see your “need to carry” and raise you with my “right to carry”.
barbra ann
It is "Effects" not "Affects".
Public school.
does this mean the PETA people will push for;
....THE RIGHT TO ARM BEARS...
I know. I just pasted it.
It is “definately” one of my pet peeves.
That, and people who spell definitely - “definately”.
My pet peeve is when people don’t know when to use subjective vs. objective pronouns, usually in a compound. As in “The boss gave my partner and I a new assignment.”
At least they didn’t build the Arch on the East side of the River. ;-)
Statistics don’t matter when they happen to YOU.
It’s not that such events happen often.
It’s that they do happen - and being prepared is harmless.
People can throw around stats regarding bear attacks all they like - doesn’t change the fact that my wife DID almost walk into a bear (at which point I was keenly aware of what was _not_ within arm’s reach).
I've had (black) bears hanging around campsites in the back country and chased a cub up a tree (back in my youth) and had a friend eaten by an aggressive Griz on gov't parkland in AK. Nothing to fool with.
(Was agreeing, not disparaging.)
Designated wilderness areas are monitored by the USFS not the park service. And by the way, I pack with horses and mules and hunt in wilderness areas all the time. Except for existing state and federal laws there are no restrictions on carrying a firearm in a wilderness area.
The National Wilderness Preservation System coordinates the wilderness activities of the four federal agencies Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wilderness areas are parts of national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, and the public domain and may include land in several different units managed by different agencies. Initially, the NWPS included 34 areas protecting 9.1 million acres (37,000 km²) in the national forests. As of August 2008, there were 704 wilderness areas in the NWPS, preserving 107,514,938 acres (435,098 km2).
Most U.S. wilderness areas are in National Forests but the largest amount of wilderness land is administered by the National Park Service. The largest contiguous wilderness complex in the United States is the Noatak and Gates of the Arctic Wildernesses in Alaska at 12,743,329 acres (51,570 km²); the largest wilderness area outside Alaska is the Death Valley Wilderness in southeastern California
Spend spring break on lake powell or lake mead - and you’ll see every kind of weapon imaginable. One of my partners confiscated an M-79 from a drunk frat boy, and ‘dyn-o-mite’ fishing occures at least once a year.
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