Re: UXO SOUVENIRS

[Vernon Brechin <vbrechin@igc.org>]

From: Vernon Brechin <vbrechin@igc.org>

 UXO Hazard Protection Responsibility 

The solution to deaths and injuries created by unexploded 
ordnance is not more laws, rules, and regulations created by and 
administered by the agencies that were responsible or were party 
to the problem in the first place. Converting public areas into 
secured areas is not a good solution. We did not arm the armed 
services and local law agencies in order for them to exercise 
control over the people they are supposed to protect. The price, 
for the abuse of borrowed public land, should be the high cost of 
restoring it to full public use. Measures, such as warning signs 
to discourage unauthorized collection, are warranted and the laws 
should be designed to penalize the parties that were responsible 
for creating the hazard. To do otherwise sets a bad precedent. 

Vernon J. Brechin 
vbrechin@igc.org