Cuz You Never Know What Might Killin’…
March 3rd, 2008 by Sonny
Some years ago I was hiking through the Smokey Mountains National Park. I came across an elderly couple coming down the trail from the opposite direction. The man was carrying a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun with the breech open in the crrok of his arm. I said hello (very politely) and asked if they were carrying the gun for hunting, thinking perhaps they were lost since there’s no guns allowed in the park. The woman replied, with a gap toothed grin in her deep southern Appalachian drawl, “We always bring the shotgun, cuz you never know what might need killin’”. I think that pretty much sums up the thought process of those who support lifting the ban on firearms in national parks. I’d rather not be the subject of whatever calculation they make to decide what does or doesn’t need killin’ in the backwoods of an a publicly owned park that I go to relax and escape my fellow man. Now I have to worry about who might be packing heat?
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