I 'll give it a few more years......and then we will alll wonder where our  freedoms have gone..... :-/ Well freedom is an illusion anyway....but in any case. I have had what I consider recreational fires, one on a week trip, for the boy.....clicked off some picts and called it good. Then I think of the recreational fire that a buddy has had and they have been the size of houses, note the plural. Some of the citizens of this fine country like to shoot.....go down to any county sheriff's office and ask about permits both 4 purchase and to carry and consider the ammo prices and you will be confronted with it. The right to bear and shoot are clearly covered in the laws of this land. If you did not like it and did not want to do anything about it, a very pervasent problem in this fine country, maybe intrusting the goverment to solve the problem is not the answer simply because it is a very expensive way to have one's way....and your way is not the only way to skin that kitty, Bumabu. Tolerance, reflection upon the law, moving campsites, all would have been possiblites and those are the ones that I am confronted with right now. Now I can understand being confronted with the sound of gun fire if one is not use to it. I can understand the strong desire to "protect" the land. I can understand your point of view ;) BUT sometimes  you have to know when to fold them and know when to walk away and trust that the professionals in government :) and tolerate the differences in humanity.


Disclaimer:I had a bad day yesterday!