Cary Stayner was arrested in 1999 and charged with the murder of Carole Sund, her fifteen year old daughter Juli, sixteen year old Silvina Pelosso, and park employee Joie Armstrong, in the Yosemite National Park.
Posted on 11/30/2006 9:58:07 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
People should be free to exercise their unalienable, God-given, constitutional rights within National Parks, including the right to keep and bear arms and thus defend themselves if need be...therefore Sen. Allen is absolutely correct.
Do liberals really believe that potential murderers are worried about gun charges, or that they would bother applying for a permit to CC?
"Perhaps you might encounter a rattlesnake or some other potentially deadly critter that would pose a threat.... Surely there are others, but none of them are particularly legitimate."
I'm sure Timothy Treadwell thinks the same.
Oh yeah, he's bear poo now.
Does this apply to Fort Marcy Park? :-)
They guy carrying the legal concealed weapon is the GOOD guy. I wish these airheads would figure that out.
Exactly. It's irrelevant why someone would need the gun. The point is that they have the right to carry it. The Founding Fathers did not set conditions on our right to bear arms.
"worried about whether the guy approaching on one of the trails is packing a concealed weapon."
I am at peace with that. I will continue to be at peace when he pulls that gun out and shoots the knife-wielding thug who may try to rob me. Peace.
"Let’s see how many reasons there are to carry a concealed weapon into a national park."
Only one is needed.
One really good reason to allow guns in national parks is so that women can enjoy these spaces without having to organize a guy or 3 or 4 other women.
Remarkably, women sometimes like to enjoy these experiences in solitude. However, solitary women get raped, beaten, and killed in parks fairly often.
God may have made Adam and Eve but Colt made them equal.
Good for him.
This is another sign that somebody in the Democratic leadership has had a rush of brains to the head and tattooed the phrase "IF WE'D DEEP-SIXED GUN CONTROL SIX YEARS AGO, AL GORE WOULD BE PRESIDENT" on the inside of his eylids.
A National Park is no different than a street corner in Anytown, USA. Be alert... and be armed.
There are exactly none. However, there are reasons that one should carry in a national park. As thuggery has no boundary, neither should the constitutional right to self-defense.
They must........
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Apparently, that's exactly what they believe. Nothing else can account for their obvious stupidity regarding this issue.
Yes, when guns are banned in parks, only criminals will have guns in parks. Muggings will then be peaceful uncontested affairs and the Democrat Party's criminal constituency will remain unharmed and able to return to the polls in 2008.
One can never say that Democrats are not fiercely loyal to their criminal constituency, now can they? What a great bunch of team players!
Holy flipping crap. Didn't need to look past the first sentence.
People are already carrying concealed guns in parks.
Problem is: Right now it's only the bad guys. Right now there's absolutely no reason for them to refrain from pulling those guns out and disturbing your precious peace.
They don’t need to have to be worried about whether the guy approaching on one of the trails is packing a concealed weapon.
Who's "they"?
If good guys start carrying concealed weapons in parks, the only "they" worried about it will be the bad guys who are already carrying ...and morons like yourself.
If the bad guys are worried that the good guys are carrying, they'll be less likely to pull their own guns and disturb your presious peace.
Why is this so hard to get through your head?
Guns: bad (assuming I buy into your logic).
Guns in only the bad guys' hands: worse.
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