[marktwain]

This was published in the Washington Post! The times, they are changing!

[rarestia]

This is good stuff. I’m glad to hear that not all PRs are off their rocker with the gun thing.

[maine-iac7]

This was published in the Washington Post! The times, they are changing!

Indeed. The only industry the "WON" has been good for is 'guns and ammo."

I wish I'd have the foresight to invest in stocks back in the summer of '08. I could now really retire, in my own little mortgage free homestead and hunker down for the duration.

[billorites]

Stories like this make it difficult for me to slam all federal employees without feeling a twinge of guilt.

[Navy Patriot]

Scott Emmerich certainly sounds like a well adjusted Park Ranger, and seems a good fit for the job. It is excellent to see this attitude and courage in a Federal employee.

I suspect that the Compost didn't get what they were fishing for, the 2A dissertation was certainly prompted by a WAPO question.

[Rebelbase]

Once the NPS bureaucrats read this article Park Ranger Emmerich will be promoted from Glacier to some obscure national historic site in a bland location.

[OldCorps]

bump for later.

[Billthedrill]

I'd hike Glacier without a firearm - I've done it annually for the last 6 years - but I'm not sure I'd care to camp there overnight without one. Mostly if you're moving and reasonably noisy you're fine. If you're sleeping in a tent with some moron's garbage stinking up the place it really isn't Mr. Bear's fault if he stumbles over you.

Kudos to the Ranger. I hope he never has to evac my sorry butt from a trail deep in the tall and uncut, but it's good to know there are people like that out there just in case. One wrong step and things can get very bad very quickly up there. And I'm too old and broke-down to try to carry somebody else out, too.