[pct-l] Guns in National Parks

[Roger Carpenter]

Yes, none of this has anything to do with the PCT.  I am okay with hunting,
and I am okay with the right to own legally registered guns.  All I know is
that while hiking anywhere, including the PCT, I am uncomfortable with
hunting activities around me, although I accept the fact most of the hunters
are doing it legally.  Adding concealed handguns to the National Parks will
be just one more thing to pile on top of our current President's
controversial legacy.

Roger Carpenter
Portland


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net
> [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]On Behalf Of Robert W. Freed
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:50 PM
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Guns in National Parks
>
>
> Are you aware that most of the monies raised for wildlife come
> from hunting and fishing
> licenses? That no animal hunted legally via a license has ever 
> been driven into extinction?
> That monies raised from licensed hunting has repopulated elk,
> deer, buffalo and turkey
> throughout these United States? That hunters have spent more time
> and money rebuilding
> animal habitat than any one else? That people who hunt spend as
> much time or more than
> we do in the outdoors? That I hunt and use guns as just another
> excuse to spend time
> outdoors with my kids? If you eat meat you should have to at
> least one time gut your
> dinner. What this has to do with guns in National Parks I
> couldn't tell you, but it did give
> me a chance to go on a rant.   :)   Robert
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