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Originally Posted by Yahoshua
Meth labs have become a national problem across the united states and generally isolated areas of national parks have become a favorit playground for these people to build their labs, make the drug and then abandon the toxic waste at the site.
There have been instances where people come across these labs and are either killed or mugged because of it. Not only that, criminals also have the assurance that there's a reduced possibility that they may come across anyone in the park who will be armed and ready to defend themselves.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to concealed carry in a national park? As long as I obey the law there's no need to worry about me, it's the criminals, the one's who DON'T obey the laws that one needs to worry about.
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It looks as if the problem is funding - the parks are deteriorating. Allowing guns helps solve the problem law abiding citizens might have in visiting parks but will not help the cause of parks decaying over America one iota. Next it will be squatters moving in.
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23 May 2008 10:35:13 PM by
tobyhill
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - America's wildlife refuges are so short of money that one-third have no staff, boardwalks and buildings are in disrepair, and drug dealers are using them to grow marijuana and make methamphetamine, a group pushing for more funding says.
"Without adequate funding, we are jeopardizing some of the world's most spectacular wildlife and wild lands," said Evan Hirsche, president of the National Wildlife Refuge Association and chairman of the Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement.
The cooperative said in a report released Thursday to Congress that the nation's 548 refuges and the 100 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System — about the size of California — is underfunded by 43 percent. The refuge system needs at least $765 million a year but is receiving only $434 million, the report says.
A decrease in law enforcement has left the refuges vulnerable to criminal activity, including prostitution, torched cars and illegal immigrant camps along the Potomac River in suburban Washington, D.C.; gay sex hookups in South Carolina and Alabama; methamphetamine labs in Nevada; and pot growing operations in Washington state.