Allowing private citizens to carry guns in state parks is a dangerous and stupid idea.  I have enjoyed hiking for many years in Virginia's wonderful state parks.  There is no need for people to carry guns into these pristine settings.  It would be upsetting and intimidating to many families.  There are plenty of other places in Virginia where hunters can go into the forests and kill things.   But the state forests should not be one of them.  

I do understand that the people who carry guns everywhere say that they are just shooting and killing bad guys and stopping criminals.  I went the NRA website and saw where the concealed weapons carriers have stopped two crimes in Virginia since the mid-90s.  Then I went to the Violence Policy Center website and saw where the concealed weapons people from Virginia have murdered over 30 people since 2006.  I'm sorry but I don't see how stopping 2 crimes is worth the 30 lives that they have taken.  Allowing these people to carry their guns in our parks and forests makes no sense.