Why do you guys keep evading the question about carry open on Yosemite Valley floor an in the car camping campgrounds
I never evaded the questions intentionally, carrying in campgrounds or Yosemite Valley are for the same reasons you would carry any where else except the statistical probability of everything you could think of happening is extremely low, I once heard though it's just hearsay that Yosemite has a high crime rate, primarily due to the massive amount of people that are there so maybe chances are higher there although I feel statistical probability might be irrelevant.
I was thinking today about the idea beyond actual need on the subject of guns, and I really feel that "just because I want to" is more than enough reason in itself, after all the very nature of liberty is being free to do the things that you want, to not feel smothered under the confines of oppression, I couldn't help but think of that old cheesy movie called "Demolition man" when Denis Leary's character was ranting about the police state society and said "I want to run down the street naked with my body covered in jello! singing i'm an oscar myer wiener WHY!? because maybe I suddenly get the urge to!"
We can't deny that the apprehension felt around open carry situations is due to fear mongering, it would be hard to find a single person that would not call America a fear mongering nation, people are being made to be afraid of their own shadow, the point is when was the last time you heard of an incident involving a person doing open carry? I can't recall any cases, and there are still a number of states that allow full open carry of loaded weapons and look at the results? no real incidents to report, the point is if incidents are non existent or practically non existent then you really need to ask yourself why you feel uneasy if you see someone carrying a gun, and yes this is exactly the same thing that someone who carries a gun in a campground can ask themselves, the point falls back to basic liberty and a liberty that was considered so important by the architects of this country that it was number 2 on the bill of rights.
He either knew how to handle himself against the lion without a gun or he figured it out pretty quickly. Who knows, a gun might have made the situation WORSE.
I think the general logic your trying to use could just as easily be used in the opposite manor, I think the statistic is guns are used 2.5 million times a year by citizens to prevent crime, you could just say well it worked out pretty well having a gun, not having one could have made things worse, but I think we both can agree that on either side of the argument we can find incidents where things would have been better with a gun or without one.
I find it amazing that the supreme court would have to even think about the "reach" of the second amendment, the constitution is "supposed" to be the supreme law of all the land, states have to follow it and then as it says "all other laws are respectfully the right of the states", this element of the constitution has long left me wondering how federal law is even legal, by the wording of the constitution it shouldn't be but that is another matter I have been long meaning to research.
William Shatner on Gun Control
Rofl, that part where he says "how about I blow your brains out" " that doesn't work for me, does it work for you?" classic =P
