Armed to kill in national parks?

christian science monitor ^ | Tue May 6, 4:00 AM ET | unknown

[Redcitizen]

Pressured by the gun lobby and 51 US senators, the Interior Department proposes enhancing everyone's national park experience by letting people pack heat with a picnic. That's just what the nation's millions of park visitors don't need.

[Redcitizen]

"Advocates say it's a matter of consistency – bring all federal lands in line with state laws. The National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service would simply be conforming to state gun rules that apply to Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service land. But if that logic applies, why not allow logging on all federal lands, per state law? "

Because trees are inanimate and pose less harm than animals or people.

[Levante]

“That’s just what the nation’s millions of park visitors don’t need.”

Yeah, better to let the thugs that frequent these parks prey upon the other visitors with impunity. /s

[goldstategop]

Its funny how those on the Left who believe in the federal government running your life turn vocal state's rights defenders when it comes to your RKBA in our national parks.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Paperpusher]

They say the same thing everytime carry laws are relaxed. Mass shootings, cowboy gun fights, more people being shot.

It never happens, but they keep predicting it.

[MartinStyles]

Yep.. Like all leftist scares. I even think global warming. They just don’t happen.

Conservative scares like 9/11 and attacks on us? Well...

That’s why I’m a conservative. The madness on the otherside is completely without any logic or historical fact.

[VeniVidiVici]

Should we break it to this bozo that people “pack heat” in parks now?

[MartinStyles]

Shhh.. I’d never do that :)

The scare of people legally allowed to carry is something that the left can’t get over.

[DenverCossack]

I always pack a pistol when I go backpacking or hiking and have for over twenty years... there are bears and bobcats out there!

[ANGGAPO]

Nuts. I have camped in a number of national Parks in Colorado and Wyoming over the years, and always had a good, loaded, firearm close by. If you should meet a Grizzly or Cougar it's nice to have around. Also, there are a few human coyotes that roam the parks.

[muawiyah]

We had some young ladies get killed over in George Washington National Forest several years back ~ they were reportedly lesbians who liked to camp out in the mountains, but that's neither here nor there.

The guy(s) who killed them were able to get away with their crime because the ladies left their guns at home.

National Parks are, for the most part, pretty devoid of development, and folks who go to them to have a good time are at the mercy of the criminals who go there to have a bad time.

Time to even the score.

And, Fur Shur, I'd definitely trust an armed law abiding citizen over any criminal anytime.

The editors at Christian Science Monitor should crawl back in their holes and go to sleep. This issue has nothing to do with them. After all, they get shot one of their buddies will lay hands on 'em and they're healed, right?!

[oyez]

If I hear the expression, “It will be like the Wild West”, am liable to hurl. The developing West was much safer.

[Redcitizen]

I lent relatives a firearm when they toured a National Park. Hee Hee.

[DenverCossack]

ANGGAPO you can camp next to me anytime!

[Redcitizen]

I generally go for a long rifle myself. Ive never needed it but 30 rounds per mag sure helps. I have never seen a bobcat but have heard of mountain lions abounding in the places where I hike.

[Redcitizen]

The local gun range has a cowboy action shooting club. Very nice people. Thats about as close this state gets to cowboy gun fights.

[Redcitizen]

I’m none too sure they believe in healing so thats out the window for them.

[Panzerlied]

It never fails, does it? That same tired old fallacy about, “blood in the streets” now revamped as, “blood in the woods”

Is it not sad that the elitist liberal minds of the world so despise and fear their fellow man that they want to treat us all like children, incapable of behaving in a civil manner without close supervision...by them, of course!

[SkyDancer]

Here in Washington (the state) there are National Parks right in the middle of a National Forest where you can pack heat ... the bears, cougars, wolves, coyote's et al don't know the difference when going into one area than another .... people who don't know the extent of a National Park think it's just a couple of acres of grass with ponds and stuff, not dense woodland with trails that go for miles .....

[tired1]

armalite AR 7 - nice

[AnAmericanMother]

So what in tarnation's wrong with a cowboy gun fight?

We always have a good time!