You Know Something They Don't.

[SHANEA]

Email from the NPCA.

I wanted to make sure you saw this message about the NRA's push to allow loaded guns in our national parks. We just received word that the comment period for the new regulations to allow loaded guns in national parks has been extended through August 8, 2008. Over the next three weeks we have a choice. We can stand by and hope that we've made it clear to the Department of the Interior that allowing loaded guns in parks is unreasonable. Or, we can make sure without a doubt that EVERY voice is heard on this issue.

Some NRA members are not playing fair. Just last week an opponent of sensible safety laws took the alert we sent to our supporters and sent it to other NRA members, encouraging them to use our site to take action in opposition to protecting parks. NPCA doesn't need to use dirty tricks. We have you on our side. Please take a moment and share this alert with friends and family today.

Thanks for your support,

-Tom Kiernan, NPCA President

You know that national parks are a place for peace and reflection. You know that our national parks are homes to some of our most treasured wildlife. And you know that allowing guns in national parks is a BAD idea.

So why not share this knowledge with your friends? Click here to tell a friend about our campaign to keep guns out of our national parks.

It's not just logical, it's the right thing to do. National parks are no place for loaded guns. Statistics show that the probability of becoming a victim of a violent crime in a national park is 1 in 708,333, which is less likely than being struck by lightening during one's lifetime. So what's the rush in changing rules that keep both gun owners' and park visitors' rights in mind?

NPCA isn't opposed to individual gun ownership, and that's an important point to make. We are opposed, however, to regulations that could jeopardize visitor safety, increase poaching and put our already overworked Park Rangers on high alert.

We know you know that, and we'd love for you to tell your friends, too. The comment period ends soon, so don't wait. Share with them your love of national parks, your common sense approach to park protection and the opportunity to weigh in on an issue that could change parks forever.

Thanks for all you do.

DionnaDionna Humphrey
Associate Director of Advocacy
National Parks Conservation Association

[TexasGirl]

Inquiring minds want to know whether that signatory's name is really DionnaDionna.  (Wouldn't one Dionna be enough?)

[oldfatman]

BOVINE EXCREMENT

[RichardM]

Inquiring minds want to know whether that signatory's name is really DionnaDionna.  (Wouldn't one Dionna be enough?)

Ah, the perils of copying and pasting from html format to plain text (which, of course, can easily be remedied by previewing your posts!). The first Dionna was the alternate text from her avatar image in the original email that Shane attached to his post:

[TexasGirl]

Richard, thanks for explaining the technicalities.  I was just coming around to hoping that her name really was DionnaDionna.  Shucks. 

[presidio]

Email from the NPCA.

I wanted to make sure you saw this message about the NRA's push to allow loaded guns in our national parks. We just received word that the comment period for the new regulations to allow loaded guns in national parks has been extended through August 8, 2008. Over the next three weeks we have a choice. We can stand by and hope that we've made it clear to the Department of the Interior that allowing loaded guns in parks is unreasonable. Or, we can make sure without a doubt that EVERY voice is heard on this issue.

Some NRA members are not playing fair. Just last week an opponent of sensible safety laws took the alert we sent to our supporters and sent it to other NRA members, encouraging them to use our site to take action in opposition to protecting parks. NPCA doesn't need to use dirty tricks. We have you on our side. Please take a moment and share this alert with friends and family today.

Thanks for your support,

-Tom Kiernan, NPCA President

You know that national parks are a place for peace and reflection. You know that our national parks are homes to some of our most treasured wildlife. And you know that allowing guns in national parks is a BAD idea.

So why not share this knowledge with your friends? Click here to tell a friend about our campaign to keep guns out of our national parks.

It's not just logical, it's the right thing to do. National parks are no place for loaded guns. Statistics show that the probability of becoming a victim of a violent crime in a national park is 1 in 708,333, which is less likely than being struck by lightening during one's lifetime. So what's the rush in changing rules that keep both gun owners' and park visitors' rights in mind?

NPCA isn't opposed to individual gun ownership, and that's an important point to make. We are opposed, however, to regulations that could jeopardize visitor safety, increase poaching and put our already overworked Park Rangers on high alert.

We know you know that, and we'd love for you to tell your friends, too. The comment period ends soon, so don't wait. Share with them your love of national parks, your common sense approach to park protection and the opportunity to weigh in on an issue that could change parks forever.

Thanks for all you do.

DionnaDionna Humphrey
Associate Director of Advocacy
National Parks Conservation Association

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.....Chicken Little to no one in particular about his unfounded and unsupported belief that terrible things were happening.

NPCA= National Pansies and Candy A$$es.

[Casa Grande]

sounds like a bunch of alarmists