[Wallace T.]

It would be interesting to see statistics that would prove my guess that attacks on humans, pet animals, and livestock by predators like bears, coyotes, and wolves will be higher in urban areas like southern California, suburban Denver, northern New Jersey, and northern Virginia that have large numbers of tree huggers and heavy restrictions on guns and hunting than in areas where people are free to use firearms to control varmints.

[cpdiii]

In Texas we saw the movie Bambi when we were kids.

WE GO OVER IT
I love the smell of venison sausage in the morning.

[Rebelbase]

Your premise makes sense from the angle that the animals lose their fear of man when man cannot threaten them.

I spent a few days last week at a racoon infested campground armed with a super soaker full of ammonia. One wiff was all they needed to turn tail and stay away.

[Jack Black]

A prarie dog or rat is a varmint. A 400 pound black bear is a big game animal. What's really sad it that both the state and feds deny citizens the right to arm themselves when in bear country. The Feds are particularly bad about this with the all-encompassing ban on firearms in National Parks. Not a big deal if you live in NJ I guess, but it's about 1/8 of the state of Wyoming.