Shutting down recreational shooting because some shooters are stupid is like keeping the school class you are teaching, in the classroom during lunch time because one of the members of the class was shooting spit wads at a classmate.
Punish the offenders, not the entire class.
Government is becoming too big, too strong, too controlling, and they make way too many laws. Enforce the laws which are already written.
Some of those shooters were shooting at targets designed to explode when shot. How stupid is that? Punish those who start the fires.
The government will soon be telling me I can no longer plant a home garden because it takes money away from the grocery store.
The government will soon be telling me I can no longer drive a car because some drivers text while driving, and cause accidents.
Love Ya, Gordon
Gordon wrote in response to an article by By Matt Pearce, June 24, 2012, 2:58 p.m. Just a paragraph or two of the article is quoted below.
Twenty.
That’s the number of wildfires officials believe recreational shooters have caused so far this summer in Utah. One of those wildfires — the Dump fire 40 miles south of Salt Lake City — prompted 2,300 evacuation notices and has led to a 6,023-acre blaze.
It has also led to something of a constitutional controversy in Utah, where state law prevents state agencies from enacting any rule to restrict recreational shooting without the Legislature’s permission — even in areas at high risk for fires, even during a drought.
Which might explain why the Utah governor is begging residents to be more careful.
“Now is not a good time to take your gun outside and start shooting in cheat grass that’s tinder dry,” Republican Gov.Gary Herbert said Friday,the Christian Science Monitor, reported
