>>6013183 PB Guns in the heartland, critical equipment.
I've had to shoot raccoons out of my greenhouse and some that were about to attack from over my head.
Had to shoot at a coyote once, when it came after my daughter out by same greenhouse when I was building it. She was laying down on the floor of the house, and the coyote must have thought she was an injured pup of mine.
Beautiful coyote. Silver gray, big as a wolf, very healthy. Glad the gun scared it off. Next shot, it had to be gone. I do not like shooting animals at all, but many times it is you or them, especially rabid raccoons.
Was out without a gun rutting season, and almost got killed by an angry male buck, but for my mastiff. (Stupid me forgot to take my gun to inspect the field).
The dog held off the buck til I got on the tractor full steam back to the house. Most places in America, it is not wise to step out your door without a gun, especially out west.
Cities are small, square mile wise. Really small.
They have so few animals that modern man seems to have forgotten the reality that will face them when they leave the city.
Rattlesnakes are everywhere in the grasses. Wild bee hives are the worst if you piss them off. And cougars. We still have monster size cats out west that are NOT in a zoo. Many of them.
And you always have a dog. They are great early warning when you are pre-occupied fixing some broken fence or something.
Two things that will never be outlawed in America. Guns, and dogs. Critical equipment if you want to stay alive out here.
Idiots in the City who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows would get themselves killed with their gun laws. May of them come out to hunt and become the hunted. I was always amazed at the city people who run in the California wilderness areas as if they were parks, and get eaten.
Bears are probably the worst