<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Bush administration moves to allow guns in national parks and wildlife refuges]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by stevenearlsalmony http://www.grist.org/article/blazing-addle/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:09:17 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/blazing-addle/1 Protect the environment...........

Dear Friends,

The human-induced predicament visible in our time to the family of humanity makes one thing clear: people with eyes to see, ears to hear and no speech impediments have got to speak out loudly, clearly and often now. Silence, the greatest power the rich and powerful possess, cannot be allowed to prevail. The reckless way a few people with wealth and power maintain a "golden" silence, one that protects their greed, gluttony and hoarding, is dangerous and cannot longer be endured because a good enough future for our children and coming generations is being mortgaged and threatened by these leading elders in my not-so-great generation.

Regardless of whether or not other human beings choose to accept the "answers" to one question, I believe we must ask ourselves, "Can we teach one another to live within limits?"

It is necessary, I suppose, for human beings to recognize and affirm human limits

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid ...

and Earth's limitations

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYP/is_/ai_n15690 ...

To do otherwise and, by so doing, choose willfully and foolishly to ignore the practical requirements of biophysical reality runs the risk of putting life as we know it and our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation in peril, even in these early years of Century XXI.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1 ...




]]> Protect the environment...........

Dear Friends,

The human-induced predicament visible in our time to the family of humanity makes one thing clear: people with eyes to see, ears to hear and no speech impediments have got to speak out loudly, clearly and often now. Silence, the greatest power the rich and powerful possess, cannot be allowed to prevail. The reckless way a few people with wealth and power maintain a "golden" silence, one that protects their greed, gluttony and hoarding, is dangerous and cannot longer be endured because a good enough future for our children and coming generations is being mortgaged and threatened by these leading elders in my not-so-great generation.

Regardless of whether or not other human beings choose to accept the "answers" to one question, I believe we must ask ourselves, "Can we teach one another to live within limits?"

It is necessary, I suppose, for human beings to recognize and affirm human limits

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid ...

and Earth's limitations

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYP/is_/ai_n15690 ...

To do otherwise and, by so doing, choose willfully and foolishly to ignore the practical requirements of biophysical reality runs the risk of putting life as we know it and our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation in peril, even in these early years of Century XXI.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1 ...




]]> Comment #2 by olmon http://www.grist.org/article/blazing-addle/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:19:13 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/blazing-addle/2 'Dangerous'?? People Carrying guns ???

The Naye sayers keep coming up with the samo-samo BS in trying to paint a 'crisis' scene if they don't get things their way.  People who have permits for concealed weapons have been screened and are NOT DANGEROUS people.  Those who are truly dangerous do not have permits and will carry weapons whether it is legal or not. The incidence of animal attacks on hikers has also increased. I, for one, would like to be in a position to defend myself against a mountain lion, bear or wolf if the occasion arose to need to do so.  I am not, never have been and will never be a member of the IRA.  I do believe in a person being allowed to take measures to be able to protect themselves and their family from any and all threats in a responsible manner.  
   

]]> 'Dangerous'?? People Carrying guns ???

The Naye sayers keep coming up with the samo-samo BS in trying to paint a 'crisis' scene if they don't get things their way.  People who have permits for concealed weapons have been screened and are NOT DANGEROUS people.  Those who are truly dangerous do not have permits and will carry weapons whether it is legal or not. The incidence of animal attacks on hikers has also increased. I, for one, would like to be in a position to defend myself against a mountain lion, bear or wolf if the occasion arose to need to do so.  I am not, never have been and will never be a member of the IRA.  I do believe in a person being allowed to take measures to be able to protect themselves and their family from any and all threats in a responsible manner.  
   

]]> Comment #3 by swan http://www.grist.org/article/blazing-addle/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:16:22 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/blazing-addle/3 No guns - no violence

 "They noted that national parks currently enjoy very low rates of violent crime . . ."

There is no need for a gun. Basically no violent people to protect yourself from and it's illegal to shoot the wildlife.

http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com

]]> No guns - no violence

 "They noted that national parks currently enjoy very low rates of violent crime . . ."

There is no need for a gun. Basically no violent people to protect yourself from and it's illegal to shoot the wildlife.

http://goodwordswan.wildflowerstew.com

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