“It isn’t and never has been ‘stroll-in-the-park’ safe out there - - “
Sorry, but that simply is not true. For much of America’s history, beasts knew that man was the pinnacle predator.
“When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen” - once true in America but not since the advent of enviro-socialism in the guise of the Endangered Species Act.
Not arguing so much as clarifying, there are many people who would walk in mountain meadows with John Denver music playing on their iPod earbuds and think that they are as safe as Central Park at noon with a cop 5 feet away. I know, I've seen them, they have the situational awareness of a rock. Maybe a lot of the big predators of earlier days gave wide berth but bears would have been one that I would think always need care around. My opinion.