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Posted on 01/03/2012 7:25:49 AM PST by marktwain
Four people shot in Skyway and hours later, the same “person of interest” is allegedly involved in the slaying of a Mount Rainier National Park ranger, and in the aftermath, a debate is erupting over a 2010 law that allowed private citizens to carry loaded firearms in national parks in accordance with the laws of the state in which the park is located.
Congress lifted a ban on carrying loaded guns in national parks in February 2010 amid warnings by critics that the action would lead to gun violence and poaching.—Seattle Times
KING 5 morning anchor Joyce Taylor also tried to make a connection between this case and the City of Seattle’s court battle to overturn Washington State’s preemption law, allowing the city to ban firearms in city park facilities. She continued mentioning the Seattle case as the news switched over to KONG later in the morning.
As this column reported, attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association, two other gun rights groups and five plaintiffs have filed a response to Seattle’s request for Supreme Court review of its case. That case, regardless what KING and Taylor might think, has nothing to do with the Mount Rainier shooting or the Skyway incident, in which a man identified as Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, appears to be the only suspect. A car abandoned at Mount Rainier’s murder scene is registered to Barnes.
Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said that Benjamin Colton Barnes, a 24-year-old believed to have survivalist skills, was a "strong person of interest" in the slaying.—Seattle P-I.com
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So, the Obama-Reid-Pelosi triumvirate has a Forest Service security agent's blood on their hands.
This guy was a mad dog who was on a shooting spree. What difference would a law prohibiting firearms in Nat. Parks have made for a guy willing to committ murder? The laws against murder didn’t prevent his from murdering a park ranger so I really don’t think the outcome here was affected one whit by the decision to allow guns in the parks.
I think that more signs banning guns would have prevented this tragedy. One look at that sign and the guy would have turned back. (have to add /sarc just in case)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0vyxgJLJVA
Anderson had set up a roadblock Sunday morning to stop a man who had blown through a checkpoint rangers use to check if vehicles have tire chains for winter conditions. A gunman opened fire on her before she was able to exit her vehicle, authorities say.
Before fleeing, the gunman fired shots at both Anderson and the ranger that trailed him, but only Anderson was hit.
Anderson would have been armed, as she was one of the rangers tasked with law enforcement, parks spokesman Kevin Bacher said. Troyer said she was shot before she had even got out of the vehicle.
I’m sure a firearms ban in parks would have made no difference to him. It only gives the park-goers and employees a false sense of security.
As if the perp in this case would have obeyed a law denying people the ability to carry weapons in this National Park! Liberals are so unbelievably brain dead!
Obama's servile, complaisant undistinguished media (SCUM) seem to delight in highlighting any American military service connections to tragic events -- their reports are awash with reminders of the connections. Why? Does anyone really have to ask why?
Napolitano says thank you to the Obama SCUM. Remember this from a couple years ago?
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S."
The Obama Administration sees the American military as the major obstacle to their hope to destroy America and make Her into something to their liking -- to wit, what Obama roots, the 1960s Marxist-Alinksy campus spoiled-brats, wanted with their chants of "Bring it all down, man."
The “liberals” always draw exactly the wrong conclusion from the obvious facts.
They live in a bizarro world and want us to join them in their delusions.
ou are using logic, which anti-gunners are incapable of using.
Ya....if they’d have only had a sign at the entrance, announcing the prohibition of weapons in the park....that clown would have turned around and went somewhere else...../sarc
Appears that if he had ‘em, his memory failed him: found in the river in a t-shirt, jeans and one shoe. Looks more to me like trying to make him into another “highly trained veteran who couldn’t leave the war behind”.
Colonel, USAFR
I think you are 100% correct.
That is correct, but not at all relevant to this case, unless congress also lifted the ban on committing murder in national parks.
It appears that those who “believed” this guy had survivalist skills were wrong...
Also covered here (but my thread got hijacked ;-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2827731/posts
Oh. Wait...
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