NY Times: No Need For Firearms In National Parks

The New York Times has weighed in the push to allow firearms to be carried in our national parks. The writers at The Ten Ring blog commented on the expected pushback from editors who, in my mind, write as if they don't know what kind of world exists outside the island of Manhattan:

"The New York Times published this editorial at a time when a female hiker is missing and presumed dead. While the woman disappeared from the Chattahoochee National Forest which is under the purview of the Department of Agriculture, the lesson is the same. A woman who has a blue belt in martial arts cannot defend herself against a man who may have been armed with only a police-style baton.

"The point The New York Times editoral board doesn’t get is that self-defense is not negotiable. Guns are the best tools for self-defense, and the best equalizer between a citizen and two or four legged predators. The New York Times describes National Parks as places set aside for “peaceful preserves” in which guns have no place.

"Too bad we don’t all live in a world with unicorns and fluffy bunnies prancing around in predator-free preserves. No, we live in a real world."

I could not have said it better myself. Read what the NYT had to say.