I have recently posted about the gun violence and "triggertrash" littering our national parks

[HassleCat]

2. Shooting area

When I worked for the Forest Service, I sometimes drove through an informal shooting range. Unfortunately, the shooters stood on one side of the road and fired at targets on the other side, so I had to stop and make sure they would hold their fire before I could continue. This place was so heavily used there were several large fir trees toppled by gunfire. You can imagine how many rounds it takes to cut down a two foot Douglas fir tree; it must be thousands. The area was closed when one of the gun persons decided to kill a man just to see what it felt like to shoot someone. There was some debate about closing the area to shooting. Some people wanted them to congregate at that spot because they thought it would be easier to keep an eye on them if the weren't spread all over the forest. Other people thought the "fraternity" atmosphere of all those shooters getting together contributed to the murder.