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| Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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The Email I sent to the National Park Service:
To: Mary_Bomar@nps.gov
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 11:35:10 AM
Subject: Guns in Parks
Dear Mrs. Bomar,
I saw this morning's article in the Los Angeles Times saying that the Park Service is considering allowing visitors to bring guns into National Parks. I want to share with you that this citizen is strongly opposed to that!
This summer I took my family on the trip of our lifetime, we visited as many National Parks as we could in three weeks from Utah to South Dakota. It filled me with much pride to share with my family, and spread the word to my friends across the world about America's beautiful national parks. It felt good each time I entered a National Park knowing it was a gun free zone. Please don't take that away from us! Don't allow guns in our National Parks.
Sincerely,
Ross Doering
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| Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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| ok hear I go dont get me wrong im not A nra right winger but I am A sportsman and if guns are handled with respect there will be no problumb and has anyone thought about self defence agenst not so much animals but other humans I never go camping with out one only where its alowed im not going to break the law but I think we should be alowed to carry in parks. Sonny
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| Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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| I view National Parks as a place of peace and rest. I see no reason for any person to bring a gun into a National Park. People make the argument that, if used responsibly, guns are fine. But not everyone is responsible with their guns. Why not keep these National Parks safe and keep guns out of them.
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| Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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| if they dont let lawful people carry guns only the unlawful will have guns becouse they dont care about the law any way thats when you have trouble but I do agree that parks is and should be A peaceful place but some people out there in the world are not peaceful so we should be prepared
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| Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 |
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| A friend of mine was killed in a park where he was not allowed to carry a gun even though like me he had a concealed carry permit. He was the victim of a mugger that had a gun and shot my friend even thouth the did not resist. By the way the mugger has not been caught, there were surveillance camera's to deter crime. Didn't work.
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| Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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My husband, a retired police officer, would provide excellent protection from a bear, bob cat, or psychopath if he were allowed to carry a firearm into a national park. This discussion also reminds me of Meredith Emerson, who was tortured and killed when hiking with her dog on Blood Mountain, Georgia. A gun might have saved her life. I can see both sides of the issue and many of you have made good arguments for the other side. This is just my humble opinion.  By the way, I love wildlife such as bears and wild cats as much or more than the average blogger here and I would NEVER shoot a bear or a wild cat unless it was the ONLY way to preserve my own life. I would find the gun more comforting to protect me from crazies than animals and there are some crazies that hike.
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| Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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| You are confusing "gun-free zone" with "crime-free zone." Let's please use a little common sense here and try to look at this rationally, free of the hysteria that so frequently characterizes the anti-gun crowd. First of all, you need to acknowledge that gun ownership does not automatically make a person a criminal or a potential threat to society; the overwhelming majority of gun owners are respectful, respectable, responsible people--it's only a tiny minority of mutts who abuse firearms, and they give us legitimate gun owners a bad name (that wouldn't be true, however, if people would apply a little logic and THINK for a change!). Anyway, as you are probably aware, national park crime rates are rising, and if you do a little research, you'll understand that weapons in the hands of law-abiding citizens have prevented more crimes than the police ever could. If you are the victim of a crime in a remote area, you have two choices: defend yourself and your loved ones, or submit to seeing your family robbed, raped, murdered, or otherwise defiled by some scumbag who has no regard for you, your rights, your property, your dignity, or your life. Calling 911 is not an option when you're out in the backwoods. This legislation will make the woods SAFER, and anyone who thinks the opposite holds true is simply not using their head. I'm not an Obama fan, but I will say that he got it right this time. Long live the 2nd Amendment!
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| Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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| This is so frightening to me. The idea of everyone having to carry a gun to protect themselves wherever they go is a dreadful thought. This would be the extreme, but is this extreme very far away? If we can't visit National Parks without carrying a gun, they don't sound like very safe places to visit. The idea that I could be shot while walking through the trees makes me want to stay home. It seems like another step closer to an environment where "the right to bare arms" becomes "the necessity to bare arms." Or maybe there never was a difference between the two.
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| Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
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Caroline Wells (6/22/2009)
I view National Parks as a place of peace and rest. I see no reason for any person to bring a gun into a National Park. People make the argument that, if used responsibly, guns are fine. But not everyone is responsible with their guns. Why not keep these National Parks safe and keep guns out of them.Because the last time I checked, criminals didn't obey the laws anyways. Has there been instances where a criminal used a gun against an innocent in a park (do the research, but I'll tell you the answer is "yes")? DO you think that the laws against carrying a gun in the park prevented those criminals from carrying and using their guns? Obviously not! People who have concealed carry permits (and who are the ones who would therefore be allowed under this law to carry firearms in the parks) are the epitome of responsible gun owners. Statistics from the many states that allow concealed carry show that these folks are less likely to commit any crime, yet alone a violent one. THey have undergone background checks and training. Depending on the State you live in, I would bet that you unknowingly encounter many people in your daily life that are carrying guns. Besides, even the park rangers think these locations are beoming more and more violent. This report indicates that park rangers are 12 times more likely to be killed or injured than FBI agents, yet we citizens shouldn't be allow to defend ourselves in these same areas? http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2004/2004-09-01-02.asp Guns carried by law-abiding citizens are used every day to prevent violent crimes and despite most states now allowing concealed carry, the dire predictions of the anti-gun crowd of shootings over traffic disputes and other minor disagreements haven't happened. There is no reason to believe that allowing concealed carry in parks would result in any different outcomes.
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