http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/08/yellowstone-shooting-death_n_3891379.html
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after an Idaho woman reported her 3-year-old daughter shot herself with a handgun in a campground.
Park rangers responded Saturday morning to Grant Village Campground, but resuscitation efforts failed, resulting in what officials said was the first shooting death in the park since 1978.Park spokesman Al Nash said Sunday that part of the campground remained cordoned off while park rangers and special park agents conduct the investigation. He said he didn't know where the girl's body was taken.A federal law went into effect Feb. 22, 2010, allowing visitors to possess firearms in the park. Nash said records show two shooting deaths occurred in the park in 1978, but he didn't have details."Given the 3 million visitors we see here every year, there thankfully are very few fatalities reported in the park," Nash said. He said heart attacks were the primary cause of human deaths in the park.
because it takes a couple of years to gun violence to rear it's ugly head in a park does that make it ok to let people carry them into parks,
suppose your kid is looking for bugs bent over a moves a bush is he a target? it does not matter how many go before the bad one the point is that the bad one can come, who decides that 3 million people's park experience are worth more than one life.
can they say with certainty there were not others that were buried and not reported, just sayin
Portions of the park are within the borders of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, with the girl's death occurring in Wyoming. Nash said park authorities have exclusive federal jurisdiction because the park predates the formation of those states, but works with surrounding law enforcement agencies. That means park rangers and special park agents are leading the investigation, he said.
do these other states go along with the carry in the park law? they say they don't haave all the facts does that imply the mom is being looked at, not thefirst time a mom took the kids out one way.
