SPB - Guns in My National Parks

From now until Jan 20, 2009 I will post blogs regarding our outgoing administration, or SPB - Still President Bush - and the damage he is doing to My Country. This is the first of my SPB blogs but certainly not the first bit of damage.

Today's NYTimes mentions in an editorial that SPB has signed into law authorizing the public to carry weapons, including concealed weapons, into My National and State Parks. I have been only a casual user of My National and State Parks systems but never once thought about the possiblity of being shot at either accidentally or purposefully. And this from the man who wants Me to believe that he's made My life safer.

Anticipating what Barack Obama has called “common-sense gun safety laws,” the Bush administration has rushed through a last-minute gun rule that is the antithesis of common sense. The Interior Department published a rule last week that will allow loaded, concealed weapons in nearly all of this country’s national parks.

The rule, which will take effect next month, will apply to national parks in every state that has a concealed carry law, even if guns are prohibited in state parks. The administration — again — also has ignored the point of a public comment period. It received 140,000 comments on this proposed rule change, the vast majority opposing it, and still went ahead.