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Posted on May 6 at 3:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So y'all want students and teachers packing heat in the classroom, right? That is the inescapable direction your logic leads. I want my America back. At least let some small part of our country be a refuge from the sickness of our cities. Your logic is sick and you want to destroy the cure. It's very sad.
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Posted on May 6 at 10:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)
These are irrational choices and comments. While no environment can be perfectly safe, the Appalachian Trail is as safe as it gets. For the logic of guns on the trail to be accepted, we must then accept their presence in our classrooms, which have proven to be less safe than the trail. No, I'm not advocating that. I'm advocating a little common sense. I'm advocating for an environment that is calming and serene and inappropriate for the same thought patterns you'd practice in a dark alley or the parking lot of a bar on Saturday night.
No, we won't be able to prevent an ignorant, selfish few from carrying needless excess weight, but don't expect such foolishness to be ratified by the rules of the National Park Service.
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Posted on May 9 at 5:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Saying that a trail is safe is the ultimate in irresponsible posting. I've lived in those mountains most of my life, and know from personal experience that going into the mountins without some sort of a weapon is foolhardy and deadly."
How many people die a year on the AT because they were unarmed? Compare it to lightning strikes, shark attacks or any other rare accident. Don't compare it to driving a car, working at your job or the hundred other daily risks we take that should worry us.
The gun fetishists here are not being logical. The Trail is a safe environment and it is used by thousands each day who appreciate the peace they find there. They don't need a piece.
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