I don't know about this particular naysayer and this is not a personal attack, but generally people who are anti-guns have never had an experience where their lives were threatened by animals or others and are generally ignorant of human nature and underside of our society. They are also typically afraid of guns and weapons and have little experience with them.

They've never seen grows, never seen armed men hiding in cabins or tents on old trails. They've probably never been robbed or accosted out in the woods. They've probably never been stalked by a cougar or seen a bear rumage through their camp. They've never had a meth head out of his mind come after them with a baseball bat or take their wives or girlfriends at gun point.

In other words, they've been lucky. Just like most of us who haven't died in a car wreck yet, but aren't about to act like and assume it could never happen.

Its our right not to become victims, yet still the enjoy the wilderness that we collectively own.

With a history of LEO experience, I know very well what people are capable of and the woods is a great place to become a victim, because you are alone, concealed and help is far away if available at all. I almost never go into the woods, desert or mountains without a weapon. Yet, I don't carry in the city as often, even though I have the legal ability to do so. That is simply my choice.

A gun is not the first line of defense for a citizen..it is the last, not unlike a seatbelt. You don't drive like an idiot, just because you have a seatbelt and every option possible should be excersized in the woods to avoid confrontation with animals or people, but you wouldn't take away my right to wear a seatbelt, so don't you dare take away my right to carry a legally licensed firearm as my last line of defense.

Personally I'm libertarian. I don't care what you do, but you damn well better not attack my rights either. If everyone just allowed everyone else to excersize their rights and we all left each other alone, we'd be a lot happier and that goes for both political sides. Unfortunately, the socialists want to regulate everything and the conservatives want to ban every behavior they find "immoral" and so here we in a constant battle of imposing our views on other people.

Leave me and my rights alone and I'll leave you alone and we'll all be happy.

This is just my opinion, nothing more.