Carl Hiaasen comments on National Park Carry

Well, write a well-composed rebuttal. Research the issue carefully and fully, then tell the truth.

Don't stoop to name calling.
Don't get weird.
Don't sound like the paranoid freak they're expecting.
Don't disseminate lies.

Just tell the truth.

Heres a source to quote about the reality of violent crime in National Parks.... which average over 4,000 per year.... (not including animal attacks)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/02/28/GR2008022800363.html

Man, remember the '90s, when he was funny?

I think he's just so burned out that he's looking, desperately, for anything to satirize. Unfortunately, that doesn't even rate as good satire, it's just sophomoric drivel...

Being in the business (library) I was aware he was an anti to some degree,

Also so is Robert Parker if my memory serves me.

Several years ago...6 or 8 maybe...I was in Pickett St. Park. It is truly in the boonies and we were maybe five miles from the ranger station. We had pulled off in a observation /overlook area. We were about to leave when seven guys on 4-wheelers rounded a curve, covered the quarter mile, and were in the parking lot... all around our car.

Made for some very antsy minutes. Let me point out- there were no threats or comments. Nothing happened. We got in the car, one guy moved, we left...as planned. Point is, if evil had been intended, there was NO HELP coming for us. No cell phone service. Horn honk...USELESS.

We need the right to carry in the parks. Rangers cannot be everywhere! WE all know that...and so do the bad guys.

Mark

ps: I only had 6 rounds of .38 special.

Hardtarget:I only had 6 rounds of .38 special.

Guess that means 2 of them are gonna have to get in line...

Parker

Here is another article from 1990 about crime in national parks.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/21/us/no-headline-577790.html

And one more from 2005.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0808/p03s01-ussc.html

Both of these are well after the "ban" was in place and also well before it was lifted.

I would send him these articles to him but I somehow think he has a set of blinders on, ear plugs in and is already poisoned from the Kool-aid.

Had one of our anti-gun doctors at work a couple of days ago greet me with "Did you hear? You should be happy now. You can carry a gun in all the parks!"

I just said "Read it again. All it says is that the law on the outside of the fence is the same as the law on the inside of the fence. Nothing else." Then I shrugged like "Big Deal".

She kind of stopped for a minute and said "Oh." End of conversation.

"ps: I only had 6 rounds of .38 special. "

yeah, but how many pounds of car did you have?

Even a Honda Civic can push a 4-wheeler ATV out of the way easy.

I like Hiaasen. Some of his stuff is still funny. Skinny Dip (2004) comes to mind. On his editorials about self defense and state's rights, obviously I disagree.

I'm not sure what's worse. This idiots poorly thought out, poorly researched, or poorly written article, the fact that someone actually published this crap, or the comments referring to gun owners as small-brained freaks.
What a joke. Then I saw this idiot wrote the book the movie "strip-tease" was based on. Wish I knew that before I read the article. I would have realized how bad this guys writing was and saved myself the three minutes of my life I just wasted.

Carl Hiaasen comments...

This meatwhistle is a mediocre writer of third rate novels who is likely looking for some publicity to shore up declining book sales. The Miami Herald is another paper circling the drain. In a year both will be gone like flatulence in the wind.