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Posts Tagged ‘national parks’

Bush Administration Wants You To Carry Guns In National Parks

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

For the first time since the Great Depression the Secretary of the Interior is making news with a proposal. The Secretary, whose name is… let’s ask Google… Kempthorne, Dirk Kempthorne, “proposed new regulations Wednesday that would allow people to carry a concealed weapon in some national parks and wildlife refuges.” Someone has been stealing Kempthorne’s pic-a-nic baskets recently, and he is Bitter and Clinging To Guns? Or maybe he’s just going through a terrible divorce/lobotomy. MORE »


Guns and National Parks: The Perfect Combination

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Elmer FuckabeeSince the early 1980s, the federal government has required that gun owners must render their guns inaccessible while in our great nation’s national parks, since some yahoos that are obviously, totally gone by now kept taking potshots at various animals and/or other park users. That being the case, 47 of your United States Senators think it’s about time that the yokels got their bald eagle shooting possibilities back.

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