Rainier rangers: A sharp eye on the slopes

I like you Mark have travelled some of the less law abiding parts of the world.
I have had an AK 47 shoved in my ear by a drunken soldier at a roadblock in Kampala, Uganda at night where I was then stripped of my shoes, wallet and watch and was pleased to walk home alive.
Same country , one of my workers was shot dead by a soldier who had nearly run him over  in  jeep and had given the soldier the finger.
Soldier  stopped the  jeep, jumped out of the car and execued him in front of us. I decided to leave Uganda at that point.

I grew up in a hunting fishing family where my father and twin brother where as obssessed with hunting as I am with skiing.
Guns where respected and our father taught us to shoot . To own a gun you had to get a firearm certiicate from the police.
After the school shooting in Scotland where a bunch of school kids got shot by a madman, the local gun laws became draconian.

When my father got very old, some people complained that such an old man was still going out shooting with his gun and the police revoked his firearm certificates and came to the house and took all his guns away. A very sad day.

There's nothing wrong with owning guns and the laws in Europe are too restrictive whereas IMHO the laws in the US are becoming too far the other way and the allowing of guns in our National Parks just ridiculous.  Others will have different opinions and I respect that.

Damn Scottie that's insane.

Uganda?

Didn't they make a movie about you?

Yea it was 23 years ago after Amin had left.
One of the most surreal experiences of my life was being in Entebbe Airport, watching the movie" Raid on Entebbe" that they played continuousy on a VCR on a TV in the airport that was always surrounded by locals cheering evrytime an Isrealie was shot and booing evertime a Ugandan was shot. You could still see the bullet holes in the concrete walls from the actual raid.
Very trippy.

One of the most surreal experiences of my life was being in Entebbe Airport, watching  the movie" Raid on Entebbe" that they played continuousy on a VCR on a TV in the airport that was always surrounded by locals cheering evrytime an Isrealie was shot and booing evertime a Ugandan was shot.

Must have been a pretty overwhelming ratio of booing to cheering.