The sad truth is profit and lifestyle of those creating the food for those in the ever growing cities and suburbs (which I agree want others to do as they say, not as they would be willing to do) will logicly justify the eventualy extinction of most things besides humans. Predators do diminish the populations of prey animals, but they catch what is easiest to catch. The easiest animals to catch are either young, old, lacking caution (which means they are 'sighted' more) or most importantly sick with things like wasting diseases etc that if left unchecked can adapt and evolve into epidemics that do effect humans and other animals, like the "mad cow diesease" or cattle killing "scrapie" which wasting disease is related to.
Eventualy our world will logicly be allowed to become cities and farms to feed them with little room for anythign else, at which time guns(as this board is about) and self reliant people will be even less understood or tolerated. Socialism will prevail and it will be all about numbers, and the management of the majority, not rights or freedoms of the individual. I hope to be dead by then.
One of the last remaining understood lifestyles even antis can understand is that of the person who enjoys the wilderness and is armed for protection against predators (or for hunting) that exist. When they don't exist (in animal form) and people are not at risk of being attacked then the means to protect from such attacks no longer is seen as necessary by antis. Yeah it would be nice if they understood the 'tyranical government' defense envisioned by our founding fathers, but they support increased management by the government, not less so even if that was logical to them they wouldn't acknowledge it.
It is hard not to acknowledge something that COULD eat you on a lil jog while wearing perfectly matching jogging attire, on the way to grab a moca latte grande. So even antis must admit the danger. It is easier for them to talk of police always being everywhere protecting them from every potential human threat who is just a misguided soul, and just needs some time as legal slave labor before they will be wonderful again, than to defend something they cannot relate to like a wild predator.
The places with the most freedom are those with the least people, the most land, and the most predators to make people self conscious of providing for thier own safety. Whether those predators are animals, native raiding parties, or criminals the atmosphere tends to lean towards the RKBA.
The places with some of the least freedom are crowded, with people with enough false sense of security (until victimized) to feel protected with thier pen and a lawyer from any threat they might encounter. These people can then dabble in managing others with said pens even to the extent of what they do behind closed doors, on thier property, or in general because immediate safety concerns don't limit them to the minimum governing/managing required to succeed while focusing on said threats. Suddenly everyone has an opinion on how everyone else should live thier lives even if it is out of sight, and only thier way or that decided by the majority is right. Well since the largest population densities are places like Chicago, LA, New York, DC etc, and such places are the majority, they should be deciding your lifestyle through legislation right?
Yes something as simple as having potentialy dangerous though ecologicly helpful and necessary animals can encourage freedom in RKBA and other things. This in turn makes it easier to have the tools available to protect from the more likely 2 legged threats that come your way. Self reliant lifestyles and attitudes all tie in together to support eachother, whether it is RKBA which is self reliance on security or other things. While more reliant on governing bodies centralized, elected by the masses lead to laws limiting self reliance as they think they can manage it better, and need to cull the competition. They make themselves necessary by insuring others cannot provide what they are seen as necessary to do, and security is a big item on that list. So when some antis tell you they know what is best for your arms, you can tell them about the wolves that prowl around where you live (even though they rarely bother people) eyeing your children. See the wolves are your friends, as is every other thing the antis living under the false illusion of security in a city cannot relate to.
