Ah, yes, the gun. It is very safe to assert that MOST rationale people (and i'm referring to ALL PEOPLE, no subsets), given the opportunity, will arm themselves with a gun or other deadly/instantly incapacitating armament if confronting face-to-face potentially lethal wild animals in the wilderness. People may HOPE to avoid harming these magnificent beasts, but wouldn't hesitate to shoot them if they became hostile or aggressive.
A dear, old geologist friend of mine once put it very succinctly when we were talking about how amazing it was that neanderthals were able to slay woolly mammoths. He said:
"When you're 5 foot 4, weigh 170 pounds and you're confronted by a six-ton woolly mammoth, you don't try to reason with the woolly mammoth, you KILL the woolly mammoth."
Now, granted, we were smoking ganja so it seemed funnier at the time, but the underlying sentiment of finding & using a way (hopefully as foolproof as possible) to eliminate the imminent threat of death is still as valid.
No racial issues involved here, just common sense which nobody has a monopoly on.
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