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As an avid hiker, I applaud this. There are plenty of places to shoot guns and to hunt. I like to hike without worrying about being shot by some careless hunter, and there are plenty of them out there. Where I live, you can only hike on Sunday during hunting season or you risk being shot. Too many people, hunters and none hunters alike, have been accidentally shot by hunters who fail to completely identify their target.
As an avid hiker, I applaud this. There are plenty of places to shoot guns and to hunt. I like to hike without worrying about being shot by some careless hunter, and there are plenty of them out there. Where I live, you can only hike on Sunday during hunting season or you risk being shot. Too many people, hunters and none hunters alike, have been accidentally shot by hunters who fail to completely identify their target.
Many have speculated that Operation Fast and Furious (a Federal program to waive firearms regulations and let straw purchasers bring thousands of guns across the border into Mexico with little or no tracking) was the first leg of a plan to increase firearms violence to the point where people would demand "more gun regulation".
Concern over the massive gunrunning schems, and the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and Americans such as Border Patrol agent Brian Terry with guns purchased through the Fast and Furious program, is reaching a fever pitch.
Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.
Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.
I didn't see a single mention of banning guns on public lands in the linked article.
I seem to recall in early 2009, when many went and emptied out shelves of guns and ammunition, that those of us who would dare to even THINK anything would happen to our rights were, let's see, "morons", "kool-aid drinkers", "sheeple", "paranoid", "stupid", "fools", "idiots", etc.
Because, see, there was NO way Obama was going to do anything to our rights. No, we were all complete tool sheds for thinking such things.
We were laughed at.
Except, oh, look, he has and is.
Well since many paid 50-100% more for those items than what they cost currently or before.
Grown men acting like hysterical 12yo girls trying to get Justin Beiber concert tickets is never a pretty sight.
Yep. Good job by the hunter and other shooting groups making sure that their congressmen and senators underdstand that this is the type of issue that produces ex-congressmen and ex-senators.
Let's call this the Daschle effect.
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