Not everyone thinks a seven year old kid is 'trespassing' when they are just playing around or hunting on your property. In fact, most people around here are neighbors who welcome them. But, most of us don't look like or act like meth smoking loons.
Some of these properties have ponds, streams, rivers, caves, forests, animals and other critters, birds and other things that are interesting to see.
I didn’t carry a riffle by myself until I was about 12 or so. It was a 22 when I did. I had been trained to carry it very carefully, always pointing it to the ground, always covering the trigger guard area when carrying it through the brush. I was also taught that a gun is never to be handled as if unloaded. To this day, I don’t even take a gun that I know is unloaded, and move it so that it dissects a plain where a human is located. NEVER. And frankly, if I’m around someone who does, I leave.
Like you mention, most people on farms don’t mind folks walking across their property. The one time I did hunt on someone else’s farm, it was at the direction of the adults. They knew the neighbors didn’t have a problem with us doing it.
I hate to see people commit crimes like shooting these people for no justifiable cause. They make a bad name for others.
Balanced people should read this and think loons. Unfortunately the left isn’t balanced, and they’ll read about it and think, “gun owners”.