“Reality is never ‘on-vacation,’ just because we are!”
Carr
Hiking in State/Federal Parks:
Local police today made an arrest of the suspected murderer of a two parents who were hiking with their children (ages seven and nine) in a “remote area” of AR’s Devil’s Den State Park last weekend.
The couple’s two young daughters survived the attack and subsequently made the two-hour trip back to the trail-head and reported the incident to Park authorities. There is no cell-phone service in the area where the murders took place. No additional details with regard to these murders has been released.
AR State Parks do allow the carrying of concealed handguns within the Park, so long as the weapon stays out of sight. Open carry is prohibited.
However, AR Park regulations quickly add that concealed guns are not allowed within any building, including the Park’s Information Center. The foregoing makes it virtually impossible for anyone (except government employees) to move about within the Park while armed, which of course has always been the cynical intent.
Yet, when in such remote areas, definitive protection/rescue by police, Park Rangers, et al is fantasy, as we see!
Not being permitted to carry your gun in such places is akin to not being allowed to carry matches, flashlights, first-aid kits, anything that an emergency might demand.
You’re expected, indeed required, to be “a good victim!”
Thus, when violently attacked in State Parks, so-called “experts” advise that you “just give the criminal what he wants”
Well, what if your attacker is a bear, or a mountain lion, and “what he wants” is to have you for lunch?
And, what if your attacker is a homicidal maniac, and “what he wants” is solely to murder innocent victims?
In those cases, voluntarily being “a good victim” doesn’t sound very appealing, does it?
But leftists insist, because they don’t believe self-defense (in any form) on the part of us “ordinary citizens” (read that: “expendable peons”) is ever warranted. Lethal self-defense is only justified when it is elite, self-righteous leftists themselves who are being threatened!
Accordingly, you can bet that when leftist politicians visit State Parks, they and their cadre all remain heavily armed, as “rules” that apply to “ordinary citizens” are (with a contemptuous sneer) casually swept aside for their benefit!
No “good victim” status for them, eh?
The fact is, these parks are perfect for predators, human and otherwise. So, who go to such “remote areas” need to do so well-prepared for all foreseeable emergencies, as any kind of aid is hours away.
We humans are hunters, by nature, and we hunters approach life through the eyes of a hunter, not a prey-species. While leftists oh-so-piously decry hunters and hunting, there is great value in embracing life as a hunter. As hunters, we audaciously claim our own magnificence, and we thus caustically reject “victimhood” as a way of life, the way of life leftists ever try to impose upon us.
“No matter where we find ourselves, we affirmatively/unapologetically/enthusiastically defend ourselves from all threats, because we’ve learned, abruptly and painfully, that no one else will.”
Operator’s Axiom
/John
