Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 22, 2010 6:21:02 PM
Guns are now permitted -- but not necessarily welcomed -- in national parks
As the controversial law takes effect Monday, critics argue it could increase wildlife poaching, violence between visitors and against rangers, and destruction of historic and cultural monuments.
Increased violence against visitors and rangers? You know, someone would have to be a mental midget to believe that having a gun in a national park would somehow promote violence. Outside the bounderies of most national parks are regular forest lands (at least in Colorado) that people carry guns into all the time, yet there are no random shootings or violence there.How is it that a national park would be different?
Maybe somewhere there is some otherwise law abiding, gun owning citizen who has something against park rangers that will now decide to take his revenge being he can lawfully carry a weapon into the park.
Silly.