Oh, the irony there is just too rich to pass up, since the gun control types say they only want police and military to be armed.
I'm about to let you in on a little secret as to who predominantly shoots up those highway signs. Don't be surprised or even shocked. Those who do it, of course, deny it, and will never, ever get caught.
Most highway signs on lonely roads...have you noticed that they're either hit with a buckshot blast or several medium-caliber handgun holes?
The ugly truth of this one is that most highway signs are shot by the cops themselves, usually out of boredom.
And they'll never get caught, because they are the ones who do the catching. Get it? Give us gun owners a little credit. Most of us have lived through 10 years of persecution and being labeled "gun-totin' redneck psychobilly bubbas" or some such. I know for a fact that I, nor would any shooter I know, willfully deface a public road sign.
The only reason I can even report as to who shoots up signs is because I saw it once. Once. On Angeles Forest Highway, back in 1989. At night. The rest of the details are omitted under my 5th amendment right. But suffice it to say that I was not, nor had I intended to be, there to shoot up road signs.
But at that moment it all fell into place for me, because like you, I wondered what flaming IDIOT of our firearm-owning brethren would hurt our cause like that, especially considering that at the time, Angeles Forest had TWO open shooting "areas". Not ranges...just unsupervised areas where people could go and shoot.
I saw that, and then I knew. Those who have no fear of being caught, those who are out there, day after day, or night after night, bored to tears, with a live firearm and a convenient target, and who don't have to worry anytime soon about being disarmed by public opinion.
Oh, the irony! That much of our woes come from people whom the gun control movement have branded as "worthy"!
I just had to mention that.
DG
I have a "deer" lease that really is an open area where we shoot. The only deer I have ever seen were the two that were dumped by the gate after someone took the antlers. Every once in a while someone sneaks in and shoots the trees, desks, shooting benches and anything that can be destroyed. I doubt that the percentage of people who do this are one in five hundred but the evidence lasts a lot longer after they're long gone.
And you can bet that the idiots that do that couldn't care less about defending their rights. It will be a game for them for as long as they can destroy things and when they get bored, they'll sell their guns and wreck another sport.