Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Moronic statement to start the year



The shooting renewed debate about a federal law that made it legal to take loaded weapons into national parks. The 2010 law made possession of firearms subject to state gun laws.

Bill Wade, the outgoing chair of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, said Congress should be regretting its decision.

"The many congressmen and senators that voted for the legislation that allowed loaded weapons to be brought into the parks ought to be feeling pretty bad right now," Wade said.

This piece of jackassery is in response to the sociopathic gunman who shot and killed a Park Ranger at Mount Rainier park shortly before stripping off what little protective clothing he had and wandering around until he died from exposure. The madman obviously didn't read the law, as shooting up house parties and federal agents and blowing through police checkpoints is illegal. If we are to take Mr. Wade seriously, the gunman may still have left the scene of his previous shooting with his guns, but would have stopped cold when he reached the boundary of the park, as violating firearms law is all illegal and shit.

It's a wonder why his "misconduct discharge", domestic violence charges, pending mental health evaluation, and restraining order didn't bar him from owning firearms. Maybe there should be some laws there which would certainly have prevented this tragedy just like keeping parks gun free would have. It's only common sense.

***ETA: Great minds think alike! A post at Hell in a Handbasket discusses the same shooting and the same moronic statement from Mr. Wade.

5 comments:

Broken Andy said...

So I've been wondering about this. Not that I think the Launtenberg Amendment is good law, but it would have prohibited this guy from owning firearms.

Unknown said...

Depending on what sort of discharge he had from the Army, he may have already been prohibited just for that. Having a restraining order prohibited him, as would the domestic violence charges. That guy was going to be armed one way or another. The real telling part was when an armed cop held 100 people huddled together in order to keep them "safe."

Broken Andy said...

Sometimes the police aren't exactly smart.

mike's spot said...

I saw a pic of the shooter- it looked like some of his tatts had an Aryan slant to them- I suspect it might have been related to his discharge.

Old NFO said...

If he was going to break ONE law, he was going to break a bunch... sigh...