Utah Too Cowardly to Ban Shooting During Fire Season
By Steve Casimiro on June 28th, 2012
Across the West, states, parks, and municipalities have banned campfires to help prevent the kind of devastating wildfires that are blazing across the region and in Colorado in particular. But Utah, which has suffered 20 fires started by wayward bullets in this season alone, including one that forced evacuation of 2,300 families, won’t do more than ask hunters and target shooters not to pull the trigger. Gun advocates intransigently said they’d keep on keepin’ on. “Citizens do not surrender their civil rights just because of a natural or man-made disaster,” Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. Nope, just their common sense and responsibilities to others. Via Slate.
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Whoa….what kinds of rounds are they using in Utah?!?!?! They must have some new, fancy, napalm filled, exploding kind I guess??
They were probably using the only guns approved of by the 2nd Amendment, the muzzle-loading gunpowder-fueled ones.
They are “Utarded!”
“Citizins do not surrender…”
That may be the single dumbest piece of nonsense I’ve heard in quite a long time. And I’m a gun rights supporter. If endangering the lives and property of others doesn’t alter when and where I exercise my second ammendment rights in Utah I guess I can just fire off some rounds in down-town SLC anytime I want. Yee ha!
I’m a firefighter and fire investigator for the military, at a base where thousands of rounds are routinely fired in the forest during training that is conducted from 8-5 daily. I can say with a great deal of confidence that regular rounds that are available to civilians do not cause fires. We are currently in extreme fire danger conditions, very similar to the conditions in Utah, and we haven’t had a fire on base yet this year (thankfully, because it would be a disaster if we did). When I was in Alaska, the army would occasionally start fires, but the culprit rounds were incendiary (tracer) rounds. Civilians can’t get those, thankfully. At the base I currently serve at, tracer rounds are prohibited because of their fire danger.
It’s going to be a very interesting fourth of July… I’m very surprised Utah is still selling fireworks.