Man Shooting Weapon Taken Into Custody

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (CA)
Man Shooting Weapon Taken Into Custody

Park staff encountered a man speeding into the park though the exit side of the Ash Mountain entrance station in Sequoia National Park in Three Rivers around 2 p.m. on November 25th, Protection rangers responded and found the man near the Ash Mountain Visitor Center, where other park staff had encountered him a few minutes earlier. When they arrived, the man threw a pistol to the ground. Additional rangers arrived on scene within moments, and he was taken into custody without further incident. After further investigation, it was found that the man, a 42-year-old Sacramento resident, had discharged at least eight rounds in the vicinity of the visitor center while shouting about the end of the world and Armageddon. He was taken to a local hospital and held for psychiatric evaluation. Rangers found drug paraphernalia and approximately 10 pounds of packaged and processed marijuana (valued at approximately $35,000) in his vehicle.

It sounds like the marijuana was laced with PCP or something.

In the Wild, a Big Threat to Rangers: Humans

By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: December 6, 2010
GOLDEN, Colo. —

... Two recent shootings of wildlife officers — one killed in Pennsylvania while confronting an illegal hunter, the other seriously wounded after a traffic stop in southern Utah — have highlighted what rangers and wildlife managers say is an increasingly unavoidable fact. As more and more people live in proximity to forests, parks and other wild-land playgrounds, the human animal, not the wild variety, is the one to watch out for.

“We’re seeing a little bit more of the urban spill into the wild spaces — city violence in the country,” said John Evans, an assistant branch chief of law enforcement operations at the National Park Service.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/us/07rangers.html?hp



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The new paradoxical paradigm is that gun violence will be reduced when more people have guns.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

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Frank Furter
The new paradoxical paradigm is that gun violence will be reduced when more people have guns.

Due to declining population?

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Frank Furter
The new paradoxical paradigm is that gun violence will be reduced when more people have guns.

Just like in the Old West when everyone carried a gun. They had no gun violence back then.