@revelette,
revelette wrote:Are there not gun rights/control threads where you all can obsess to your hearts content?
I think farmerman makes a good point about both the necessity of carrying some sort of weapon when out in dangerous country where you will either run into snakes or bears or wild people. I am not comfortable carrying a weapon, so I have simply stopped going to my favorite spot where I used to walk the old coal mine hills which was located behind the woods of my parents property. I wasn't afraid of bears obviously, but mostly young guys on four wheelers who started to show up there. For me, carrying a gun and being on alert would have simply ruined the whole experience of simply enjoying the experience of walking outdoors.
Not long ago, I saw on TV an elderly couple who used to like to hike or run in the wilderness.
On such an occasion, a mountain lion pounced on the old fellow and began eating him.
He and his wife were both yelling and complaining, objecting to the lion.
All 3 of them were still standing up, while the said lion was munching & chomping on the old fellow.
His wife did not approve, and she yelled and remonstrated against said lion,
whom she hit with a stick; (possibly, unregistered with the police).
After a while, the lion got tired of it and left.
Fortunately, the lion had not eaten so much as to be incompatible with his survival.
I can 't help but wonder whether the wife,
or the victim, wished that thay had competent equipment
to
control that emergency; (if not a shoulder weapon, then at least a powerful handgun).
David
