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A Culture Clash Over Guns Infiltrates the Backcountry
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"As a lover of ancient rock art, Steve Acerson usually roams Utah’s backcountry searching for images of hunters and rams carved on boulders and canyon walls. But one morning, on a hillside speckled with those prehistoric petroglyphs, he was also finding signs of a younger civilization: Shotgun shells. Bullets. Shredded juniper trees. Exploded cans of spray paint."
"'It’s all been shot,' he said. 'It’s just destroying everything.'"
"America’s cultural divide over guns has gone into the woods. As growing numbers of hikers and backpackers flood national forests and backcountry trails searching for solitude, they are increasingly clashing with recreational target shooters, out for the weekend to plug rounds into trees, targets and mountainsides." ... |
Comment by:
Mike the Limey
(8/19/2015)
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All the laws & regulations necessary for the control of recreational shooting on public land are already in place. Rather than looking to introduce greater restrictions, the aim should be education. Teaching people safe & environmentally clean shooting should be the priority but I guess that doesn't fit in with the hoplophobes' predetermined agenda. |
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-none-
(8/21/2015)
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a culture clash again caused by liberal democrat gun control policies that forces people to have to go to the "back country" just to shoot.... |
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To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defence of themselves and their country. — Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York [London 1823] |
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