Guy crawls from the woods and shoots two elderly demons. Veterans playing Rambo games. Gotta LOVE this state.

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Is it me or does anyone else wonder why some news reports keep talking about the rule that guns are allowed in National Parks as being relevant to the story? I could see if it was a shootout between a couple of hikers in the park but this was some lunatic on the run who wanted to survive in the wild and headed to the park.

Good point, sounds like bias reporting.

He didn't want to survive in the wild.

The pay station to the national park is just inside the park boundary. A couple of miles farther up the road, inside the park is the village of Longmire. The road to Paradise and the Henry Jackson visitor center has a park ranger stationed there verifying that each vehicle proceeding up the mountain has chains or snow tires.

As I understand it, the shooter didn't stop for that ranger, so he radioed ahead. In response, Ranger Anderson who was on her way down the mountain blocked the narrow roadway with her vehicle. Barnes got out of his guns-and-body-armor laden car, and shot her before fleeing into the woods.

January 1st was the first full day that the snow-play area at paradise was open to the public. There were at least 100 families sledding, skiiing and snowshoeing on that sunny afternoon. Many of them owe their lives to Ranger Anderson.

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He didn't want to survive in the wild. He wanted to die there and take as many innocents with him as possible.

The point Madi was making is outlawing guns in the Park would not stopped "Benjamin Colton Barnes" from killing Ranger Anderson.

I don't disagree with that. Although it may be worth having a discussion about killing the assault rifle ban.

What I'm saying is that Ranger Anderson wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was in exactly the right place at the right time, and I think we ought to bear that in mind when we talk about lazy government employees and high taxes.

Myself included. I'm not proud of the fact that one of the main things going through my mind during my visit to Paradise the previous day was annoyance at a $15 entry fee and chain-up checkpoints.

We might go back and revisit the killing at Wynooche Dam last year where a gun probably saved a camper from being stabbed with a knife by a drunk.

There really are two sides to the arguments on gun control.

Agree with this.

My ambivalence about the repeal of the assault weapons ban is more about politics - I felt it wasn't worth giving wingnuts something else to get all teabaggery about.

Good example of a handgun being used to protect a life and family. But how many examples are there of assault weapons being used in this same type of scenario, where someone is protecting their life or their family (gang drive-bys don’t count).

I’ll be the first to admit I lean more liberal but I also have a CPL and carry quite often. But I’ve never heard a convincing argument FOR assault weapons.

They are a blast to shoot. You really cannot miss your target if you have 50 rounds to shoot in as many seconds. I have had an AK47 for over twenty years and the world has been safe from me.

Should everyone have one? Heck no. Tighten up the requirements to own one. Limit the dealers who can deal them to include only trusted dealers. There are many ways besides banning them to get them out of the hands of crazy people.