This is a good steel man response, very much like Facebook posts I have seen lately. It’s really sad how much the right has abandoned listening to experts and just assuming we can apply “common sense” answers to fix problems that are complicated.

This aligns with what I have heard from folks I know in that world. Fear motivated by exaggerating one off and isolated incidents. The information silos in the conservative world (especially news) is frightening.

I always worried that it was a vampire draw on the battery and made the waste problem of batteries worse. Open to being wrong though

Prairie dogs along the front range of Colorado, deer in the Colorado mountains…

Please don’t do that while hiking around others, lots of people go hiking to get away from constant sounds like that.