2 men shot - confrontation at campground

Alaska - the last frontier!!

camping man wrote:
Not sure that was a wise thing to do, confront someone about their guns. I camped near the Alamo in a campground, and heard gun fire every night as soon as the sun went down,but never did get in my truck to go find out where in was coming from. Not sure I wanted to know either.

I am with you on this one. As long as the lead doesn't come in my direction I am not going to go looking for trouble...YMMV

Thank you Eric!!!

Not sure that was a wise thing to do, confront someone about their guns. I camped near the Alamo in a campground, and heard gun fire every night as soon as the sun went down,but never did get in my truck to go find out where in was coming from. Not sure I wanted to know either.

FYI, I have deleted several posts that we're turning this into a gun or no gun thread.

... Eric (Moderator)

explorenorth wrote:
As long as there's no "collateral damage", have at 'er.

That's the problem isn't it? I have no idea how drunk these folks were, or how close they were, or how many shots missed. It's those misses that wind up killing or maiming innocent bystanders.

As long as there's no "collateral damage", have at 'er. I feel as sorry for those morons as I do when drug gang members shoot each other. AprilWhine has it right.

Guns + Alcohol - cleaning the gene pool since ~1630 :B

Interesting; also ironic and perhaps inevitable.

Most folks who carry are reasonable people, but if threads on the topic here are any indicator, there's an element that gets pretty belligerent about "protecting their turf" etc. etc. etc. This sounds to me like a couple of those types bumped into each other and mutual combat ensued. It's a little amusing, in my opinion, especially since both fellas being armed, there's no automatic presumption as to which is the "good guy"- which position is usually awarded to the Hero with The Gun.

Glad no one's dead, and here's hoping there were some lessons learned.

Very sad.