National Park Carry... two years later

[coloradokevin]

Oh... how about the recent issue of GQ that called the killing of the Zanesville animals a "slaughter?" I haven't written to them yet, but when you really dissect how kooky the owner of those animals was, and how poorly he treated them (barely well enough to not be called outright abuse... but just barely), and how much of a threat they were to the public at large (they were mostly hungry land carnivores), the responding police did exactly what they had to do, with an appropriate level of force. Tranquing/capturing just wasn't an option.

I grew up in Ohio, and one of my climbing buddies from back there is a ODNR officer. He was one of the officers who responded on that call. They had little choice, it was a dangerous situation caused by a fool.

But, magazines don't often get these things right. They're only as good as their writers/editors, and magazines often leave more room for personal interpretation and opinion than your average news article.

I have a subscription to both Outside and Backpacker Magazine. In the past I haven't really noticed much of a gun bias in those magazines, if only because I rarely ever see guns mentioned in either publication. But, perhaps I'll need to send them each a letter as well, just to see what they do with it.