Shortly before I got out of the Army, I was visiting friends in Weed, CA. While in a bar in Redding, a guy tried to recruit me to guard his 'patches' and train the riff-raff he'd hired to do so. I wouldn't go anywhere out there unarmed.
I understand the concern, but it really is a very peaceful type of criminals. The same daughter once rode her horse right into a Marijuana patch. She said, a bit loudly, "I'm leaving and I didn't see anything," as she turned her horse around and rode out.
Of course, if she had tried to take anything with her, I am sure the response would have been different.
One more story. Seeing as you know where Yreka is, She, and both my wife and I, went to Yreka High School. There is about a three mile woods path (unimproved) from the school to my parents, where she waited for me at the end of the day for a ride home. This was in the early 2000s' and she frequently ran this trail at the end of the day instead of riding the bus (she almost never rode the bus, she was more likely to ride her horse from my parents to the school than to ride the bus, they had/have stables in the AG science building).
One day she was at school and they ran the dogs through the building. She knew she had been caught when she went to her locker and there was a pre-printed form style note marking the date time, and type of pistol. The form stated that "Firearms may not be stored in lockers. If you firearm is found in a locker after this date your firearm will be confiscated and your parents will be called to retrieve it at the City Police Department." At this point both she and I wish she had saved that note.
She, and some of her friends, did ask the principal where they were supposed to store their guns. He said to just put them in someones car. When I was there we were able to check shotguns in at the office in the morning (for the after school skeet club). Again, when I was there, many students had rifles in window racks.
When she was there they had mandatory firearms safety training (part of the PE class). Interestingly, they never have had so much as a misfire.