As someone who likes to camp alone and hike alone at night, I would just as soon not have any Mountain Lions stalking me or lying in wait.
“As someone who likes to camp alone and hike alone at night, I would just as soon not have any Mountain Lions stalking me or lying in wait.”
As someone who, like my neighbours, regularly strolls unarmed through country populated by black bears and cougars, and visited by the occasional wolf and grizzly bear, I find the walk enhanced by the knowledge that there are animals in the forest that could possibly do me harm.
OTOH, I don’t hike alone at night!
Do research. Mountain lions kill deer. Deer kill people. The math is not debatable.