[at-l] Was Shooting Preventable?--My Christmas Day

[jbryankramer@msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

So? I doesn't argue in any way against my point, you are in a lot more
danger driving to the trail head than you are at anytime on the trail, guns
or no. Around 50,000 people a year die on the roads, guessing only 1% of
them are hikers that's 500 a year, and I think its safe to guess 10 injured
for every one killed so that's 5,000 injured every year. And I've yet to
hear of more than one injured on the trail this year by gunshot.

Bryan

"Si vis pacem para bellum"

> > Huh?! How cost effective would that be?? Just how many hikers
> are shot every
> > year, this is the first one I've ever heard of. A heck of a lot more are
> > killed in car accidents or are even hit by lightning.
> >
> > Bryan
> There stood three adults, two men and one woman, preparing to shoot at a
> target that they had set up maybe 50 feet down the trail.  Yes, they were
> either going to shoot or already had shot straight down the trail where
> hikers walk.
>
> My son-in-law left us in the car with instructions to wait while
> he went to
> explain to them that this was a trail and that shooting on it is
> appropriate.
>  (He and his dog walk that trail early most mornings.)
>