General Discussion

From experience, do you actually live in a rural mountainous area?Do you regularly have bears around your house? How about around where your children/pets are playing? Have you looked out your window and seen a cougar walking across the filed near your playing children? If not then all you have to go by is statistics and statistics are actually a large load of used food and can be bent and/or presented to show anything about anything...Where I live I see bears and cougars fairly regularly, they generally stay away from humans but when the one comes along that doesn't it needs to be handled by us,any law enforcement or such is at least a 2 to 3 hour wait and if you do call them they will tell you to handle it yourself if you can... same exact thing they will say of it is a human threat.. A gun is a tool and that is all it is, it is meant for one thing only and when used in a safe manner it is a very very handy tool... same as a hammer or any other tool you may have use for.. It does need to be regulated in a sane and safe manner and owners should be required to meet stringent training and safety requirements...But the reality is that that will probably never happen and there is no realistic way to get rid of them completely in this country.. So they wil remain the problem that they are until the powers that be decide they really want to do something about it that is doable and makes sense