@roamer_1 , I love you, but you are wrong about this one. She has dealt with career criminals all her adult life as a prosecutor. I tested/counseled career criminals and kept a weapon in the bottom drawer of my desk. We know criminals, which includes predators - people who enjoy harming others by words or worse.
@Victoria33 I love you too, darlin, but I will disagree. But for the grace of God, I might have found my way to your couch, and believe me, I am no coward... And neither is a griz, or a wolf, or a cougar.
I won't go into Tumpy. But I think you are confusing cowardice with opportunism, which every criminal or predator displays. Given the opportunity, they will take you out. If the opportunity does not exist, or is not adequately enticing (< the risk), the predator moves on to greener pastures, as it were.
I will seldom have a problem out in the bush. Between a dog, and the smell of gunpowder and steel, most often predators give a wide berth.
Likewise with the two legged kind.
They case my joint, see the dog, and all the man piles in the yard, and the gun racks in the pickup, and they know the risk outweighs the reward. The only thing I have to worry about is somebody gunning for me... And I always meet that sort of thing head on.
Opportunism is not cowardice... And in my world, if you think your opponent a coward, you are providing opportunity and he will take the advantage. No, every opponent, or prospective opponent is considered to be extremely dangerous. and that is never an aspect of cowards.
