Besides this is Virginia and there are guns all over the place just waiting for targets. One reason we have an exceptionally low crime rate.
You think it's fine for the community to use it guns so coyote "packs would not be tolerated", but oppose their use on roving herds of deer.
Yet you are advocating the reintroduction of wolves which lives and hunts in packs and is an even larger predator and one that would be illegal to shoot. Your logic needs some work.