[neverdem]

Keep the gun ban on carrying loaded guns into national parks. Keep them inaccessible and generally useless. Beware of evil poachers with handguns. Nitwits! Draft Coburn!

[PeteB570]

I’m sure that dead female hiker would have loved a handgun just before she was slaughtered by that snake.

Criminals do not follow the law.

[coloradan]

Mountain lions and rapists aren’t generally in the Senate offices. I don’t know about the White House, though.

[RC2]

We should follow that example and reasoning. Take cars away from people because too many of the drivers go over the speed limit. Also.....have all your pay checks sent to the IRS. Then they can decide how much money you really need and send it to you. We should also take all the uniforms away from Park Rangers because it upsets too many people.

[cpdiii]

"There is simply no legitimate or substantive reason for a thoughtful sportsman or gun owner to carry a loaded gun in a national park unless that park permits huntSEE ing," stated a letter urging senators to vote against the Coburn amendment.

Bravo Sierra
1. In Alaska and they have things known as bears that will eat you alive.
2. In Big Bend in Texas visitors to the park have been shot by smugglers coming in from Mexico.
3. They also have things in Big Bend that will eat you.

[2harddrive]

WHAT are these cowardly park rangers so afraid of? Are THEY going to turn in THEIR guns to make us even SAFER, too? Or is it a double standard?

[CurlyDave]

the park rangers' association also pointed out that guns are banned from other government sites, including the Senate offices.

When was the last time a dangerous animal, other than a politician, was spotted in the Senate office building?

[Travis McGee]

No guns in parks! Let's keep them safe for trolling serial killers.

/Sarcasm. Remember Meredith...

[Dead Corpse]

ID these park rangers and file charges against them for “accessory to murder”. See if they “get it” then...

[patton]

Here is a government policy that Heller will impact on.

[AlaskaErik]

Park rangers warned that a move to drop a ban on carrying loaded guns into national parks -- backed by Oklahoma's two U.S. senators -- could degrade experiences for visitors, pose a safety risk and hurt efforts to crack down on illegal activity such as poaching.

Bull crap. But I'm sure Romney would have kept the ban in place. But now that's a moot point.

[VeniVidiVici]

"The requirement that guns in parks are unloaded and put away is a reasonable and limited restriction to facilitate legitimate purposes -- the protection of precious park resources and safety of visitors."

In a separate statement, the park rangers' association also pointed out that guns are banned from other government sites, including the Senate offices.

These ranger types are as dumb as they sound. They are determined to turn National Parks into their own little fiefdoms. It is unbelieveable the number of rules and regulations one must follow just to step foot into one of their domains. And to compare a policy of downtown D.C. to the wilds of Montana is just stupidity beyond belief.

[Ditter]

I’ll add this to the rhyme we have for our park service employees. [NO SPITTING NO SH*TTING NO HAVING FUN] now we will include [no protecting yourself].

[ASOC]

LOL

I carry every time I am in the Park system up here.

Does not take much time to load a magazien into a weapon... Mag out meets the rules. Mag in for those times when it is called for while in the bush....

[ArrogantBustard]

the protection of precious park resources and safety of visitors."

If these morons were really interested in the safety of park visitors, they'd make sure we were free to defend ourselves ... National Park land can get awfully remote, awfully quickly ... even in Virginia ... much less out west. I don't recall ever seeing a Ranger on the trail.

[midwyf]

No one is ever able to explain why it is safer to have only the illegal carriers with guns in the parks. Wildlife is not the danger, bad people are the problem, and they care less about the law. They do prefer everyone else be unarmed.

[P8riot]

In a separate statement, the park rangers' association also pointed out that guns are banned from other government sites, including the Senate offices.

Somebody needs to tell Lieutenant Dan (Senator Jim Webb D-VA).

[marktwain]

It is all about keeping “their” monopoly on legitimate arms. When originaly made, this regulation was only aimed at poaching. Poaching is not a problem now. Poaching with concealed weapons was *never* a problem.

[rfp1234]