Thread: Guns in National Parks

It's all fine and well to arm oneself against the bandits that lie in wait in the woods. I am from the South and the small town where I grew up and lived is smack dab in the Appalachian mountains on the Virginia/ Kentucky border more or less.

I have never heard of a significant number of people falling victim to criminals out there waiting for victims to walk by them on the trial. So the threat level doesn't appear to me to be there in the National park system. Granted I have heard of it. But mostly the drop was on the people anyway.

Now a greater probability of occurrence is Billy Bob packin' heat and his Daddies .45 and a case of Coors meeting up with Jimmy Joe and his brand new .357. Now we add the alcohol and then we add a political argument and then we have ourselves a gun fight.

Out here in California change the names to Jose and Tyrell but you get the same result.

I personally don't care to go in the woods or to Yosemite knowing every paranoid person there could be carrying a firearm. I don't feel safer knowing someone might try to play out his Dirty Harry fantasy and shoot me in the process of trying to save someone else.

I've owned more guns than most people so it's not like I'm a rabid anti gunner. But the concept of mutually assured destruction doesn't really work well in the world with firearms and the public.

Most people don't know how to use the firearms they carry around feeling all tough guy and wind up hurting others and not the bad guys anyway.

I don't think this is a good idea at all.