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Seems like a little city thinking to me. I'm a packer and we often camp many miles from the nearest road and it's not in a cabin or camp trailer either.
I've had a bunch of interaction with bear and some with big cats while out and about. I always have livestock with me so I have no problem with the locals if I kill a cat or bear in my camp. I also keep two or three dogs with me. Between the mules and dogs ears, eyes, and noses nothing is going to sneak up on me either.
I guess the part of this that I find to be stupid to the part of being criminal is why people who go out into the bear's and cat's back yard and set up house keeping do not take the time to protect themselves and their families.
I have run across many campers who were scared to death the morning after a bear raided their camp. Most of them do not own a firearm and if they do they don't know how and when to use it.
Out in that neck of the woods there are no cops, cell phones don't work, and you either take care of your self or won't be found with meat on your bones. Bears love stupid people and they don't even need salt. There are many more bear attacks around the parks where city folks all camp on top of each other so they can commune with nature. These flatlanders have trained the bears well over the years that they will be well fed in those camps. It really makes me angry when after they have spoiled and ruined the bear they transplant the problem animal up into our country and leave their problem for us to solve. The bear either goes back to where it started or gets shot.

“I guess the part of this that I find to be stupid to the part of being criminal is why people who go out into the bear’s and cat’s back yard and set up house keeping do not take the time to protect themselves and their families.”

You said it at the beginning of your post - “city people”.

All they know about animals is what they learn from Walt Disney. All they know about guns they learn from people like Diane Feinstein and Chuckie Schumer and Winnie Brady.

What kind of dogs do you use? Do you hunt bear?
I have a .54 caliber fintlock, a .577 caliber Enfield Minie Rifle, a ,30-06 M1917 Eddystone and an M1 Garand. I guess I couls use any one of them to take care of most bears. I suppose the authorities wouldn’ approve of the Garand - but it is .30-06, 8 shots to a clip.