Girl Shot in Yellowstone Died From Bullet Fired From Father's Gun

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20. I agree with points made here

unfortunately, because I live in a place where the number of tourists with TeeVee derived knowledge outnumbers the knowledgeable residents exponentially it is impossible to make much of a dent in that... the vast majority won't seek out information without lots of friendly encouragement.

The Coburn Amendment is stupid and dangerous and I agree that it should be repealed. Sadly, because in most places it's easier to get possession of firearms than it is to vote, we will probably be seeing more of this sort of thing. Just look at how much has actually happened to counter events like Newtown since that happened.

And thank you, for answering my question about "knowing" about predators and back country behavior, you never know about someone from their blog posts, you know what I mean?

I have lived here for decades and have seen some pretty dumb stuff that visitors who know everything do, especially the ones who figure out how to get here, tell me what I don't know and then ask what the elevation the deer turn into elk is.

On edit, finally the localized regional news on the radio is regurgitating the article cited above verbatim.

And the bear spray range is 30ft. The study that I mentioned claims that those who used firearms still were mauled on some occasions. I'll look for the citation.