“It is probably a good thing that I don’t live in an area with that problem... I would probably be the nutty neighbor who carried a gun to retrieve their mail. LOL!”
I do live with AgencyPerson pampered panthers (local name for a cougar). After a number of articles about my views, my neighbors are finally going armed.
Elderly and small makes them prime prospects for predators.
PS Bears are also a local issue.
However, “When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey”.
I can only imagine that children and the elderly are “better” targets for the Cats. For one thing, they are smaller. Secondly, some (not all) of the elderly tend to walk a little slower. I am not 100% certain how a predator thinks.. but it seems to me that those two classifications of people are just what they would want.
I am very glad some of your neighbors have finally listened to you. You never know.. you could have just saved a life.