• Omgboom@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    I live on a farm, an hour from town. The sheriff response time is about 45 minutes usually. Meth heads roam around looking for stuff to steal. There’s also wild dogs, Coyotes, and also wild pigs that will kill you given the opportunity. I truly hope that I’m never in a position where I have to take a human life. But having a gun is a necessity out here, even if you only have to fire a warning shot to get the crackheads to scatter. I also hunt, not even just for sport, game meat is a not inconsequential portion of our food supply. Wild pigs are a very real concern, they will gore you before you can even blink, and they can run at close to 40 MPH.

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      5 months ago

      I absolutely get hunting rifles we have a lot of them here and as far as I know they are rarely used or crime.

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      5 months ago

      Maybe don’t let those wild pigs in when they ring your doorbell? Even if they huff and puff

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        5 months ago

        Even if they huff and puff

        Be careful - there’s a correlation between huffing, puffing, and houses being blown down.