Using city life as baseline to measure personal safety needs ignores the fact that living in a city safely usually is a matter of luck & avoiding places like the tenderloin in SF, the west & south sides in Chicago, etc. There’s also cops that are minutes away, and worst case violent people typically want your valuables more than your life.
I grew up in Chicago, but I also spent my summers living on my grandparents’ farm in a deep rural area. It’s just a different experience out there when you’re alone in the middle of nowhere surrounded by occasionally hostile wildlife and occasionally some pretty weird people. There’s much less room for avoidance or flight from danger, which makes guns feel useful to carry. I still feel naked hiking unarmed in California.
I grew up in Chicago, but I also spent my summers living on my grandparents’ farm in a deep rural area. It’s just a different experience out there when you’re alone in the middle of nowhere surrounded by occasionally hostile wildlife and occasionally some pretty weird people. There’s much less room for avoidance or flight from danger, which makes guns feel useful to carry. I still feel naked hiking unarmed in California.