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Gun control activists love to make public parks off-limits to lawful concealed carry whenever and wherever they can. In states like New York and New Jersey, anti-gun Democrats have already declared parks to be “sensitive places” where concealed carry is prohibited, and states from Maryland to Hawaii are hoping to do the same this year.
From a constitutional perspective, banning legally-carried guns from public parks seems to squarely violate the Supreme Court’s edict in Bruen that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right to bear arms for self-defense in public. From a practical perspective the only thing the prohibition does is put law-abiding citizens at risk of being unable to protect themselves from a violent encounter, but that hasn’t dissuaded legislators from labeling these locations “gun-free zones” every chance they get.
As one father in Yakima, Washington unfortunately had the chance to prove this past weekend, however, the right to carry is inherently important; not only for our own safety, but for the safety of others as well.
A man shot and killed another man who threatened his child on Sunday afternoon at the Randall dog park in Yakima, police said.
Multiple people called 911 around 2:30 p.m. to report a man was acting erratically at the dog park at 1399 S. 48th Ave., according to a Yakima Police Department news release.
The man, later identified as Daniel Ortega, 22, of Yakima, was interacting with another man and his child at the park, and “attempted to endanger the life of the small child with his words and actions,” the police news release said.
The father told Ortega to leave his family alone, and attempted to leave the park, the release said. When his attempts to de-escalate the incident failed, the 28-year-old Yakima man “discharged his legally owned firearm in defense of himself and his child,” the release said.
Reality matters, no matter what leftists say
