03-15-2024, 09:07 PM
Tiangou wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
[quote=Mr645]
if you cannot handle a firearm safely, just let another adult deal with any rattlesnakes they come across while exploring the natural beauty, waterfalls, fauna, deer, birds, sunsets and trails.
BTW, the 9mm handgun ammo at the link is designed to protect from snakes, rodents etc, or just carry a shotgun.
Again...
Bobcats and rattlesnakes, and now "rodents"… :facepalm:
- Bobcats are extremely afraid of humans and easily scared off in the highly unlikely chance of encountering one.
- If you can see any snake you can avoid it; if you can’t see it a gun isn’t going to help you (and how many could actually hit a snake firing a handgun at it?).
"There were this squirrel, an it were lookin' at me funny. I had ta deefend myself an shoot it!"
When you love guns, anything is a target.
A couple of decades ago, I had a friend with a low-powered rifle. He used it to shoot at squirrels in his walnut tree because (he claimed) they ate the unripe walnuts. (He did not harvest/eat walnuts.)
He shot holes in the sides of all of his neighbors' homes and broke a bunch of windows. I don't know that he ever nailed a squirrel.
Managed not to get arrested, but his neighbors were not happy about it and several of them bought their own guns for "protection." From him.
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
When you have a gun, everything is a target.
When you don't have a gun and your crazy neighbor has a gun, who can blame you for buying a gun?
Here is Boca we just had a guy arrested for drunk driving, his 5th arrest for it. Badly injured two innocent people in the car he slammed into. Seems the best way to keep drivers safe from drunk drivers is to keep sober drivers off the road. That's how gun control works. I mean everyone is a sober driver..........until they are not, right?