>>784636Nice strawman. Nobody is talking about littering "all over the place" or going "anarchy mode" in the woods except those trying to misrepresent their opponents' opinions.
What I'm saying is that what actually happens is the following: there is a limited amount of land in most states where dispersed shooting is allowed. Shooters tend to self-designate specific gullies or hills as shooting areas. In my area, you can technically shoot anywhere on BLM land as long as you're far enough from a highway or a building, but that's not actually what happens. In reality, there are only ever going to be a small number of shooting areas in the vicinity, and almost no one shoots outside of these specific spots. It's not "everywhere" and it's not a big loss to the cause of parks and recreation if the area looks like a shooting range because NO ONE ELSE besides shooters even wants to go to these barren wastelands to recreate.
Here's a screenshot of a nearby desert area where I go shooting. I blocked out the place names and road number so as not to "hotspot" the area. This area is a wasteland. There are no hiking trails. There is no water. There are very few trees. The only other people besides shooters who use the area are ATV riders, and they have their own backroads that they ride on a few miles away, which don't overlap, where shooting is not allowed. You'll notice that even though it's a pretty large area of desert, you'll only ever find shooting trash in a small number of designated shooting ranges - there are five visible in this image, and only three others that are not visible.
The concept is no different than the way a landfill works. Yes, you leave some of your trash there in this area only. You do the same thing at a landfill. It's out of the way of the general public, so you won't see it unless you go looking for it. It's not hurting you that a few shotgun shells are laying around on the ground. There is no reason to get so emotional about this.
