Most American thing I can think of.

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        “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which,”

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      I’d rather do that than arm people with assault rifles so they can live in remote rural areas where herds of feral pigs are an issue. Yes this is an actual argument people make in favor of keeping assault rifles legal. “What if I need to stop a stampede of 80 feral hogs? This is a weekly occurrence on my property.”

      Frankly, if feral hogs have you running scared, it’s not your property, it’s theirs.

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        Would you like to be a moderate? I’ll propose giving the hogs the assault rifles and you’ll instantly become a moderate.

        humans have assault rifles <— no one has assault rifles —> hogs have assault rifles

        Edit: would arming both humans and hogs also be a good compromise?

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    “Legit question for rural Americans – How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?"

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      Give the kids guns too.

      That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)

      While I can’t change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.

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        I’ve been shooting since I was about 5 too.

        I haven’t in many years, but I think I was 10 or 11 when my dad got me a 20 gauge.

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        Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

        We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

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      You actually have to lure the hogs into a pen with multiple exits, drop the gates, and gun them down before they can manage an escape. You also should be very vigilant and listen well for any nearby hogs, the adult females tend to be smarter and more cautious but they’re the targets you NEED to kill.

      Failure to catch all of the hogs will allow the others to learn and adapt to the traps, and failure to kill the females will result in their population continuing to grow.

      Other effective methods are clap traps and spike pits but those don’t work well when you have children or other animals. There is also the M44 cyanide pill shooting trap made for Coyotes but idk if it works on Hogs.

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      I’ve only have wild boar jerky before and it was pretty tasty, but you gotta get the meat tested first bc they can carry some serious diseases.

      Sorta fun fact from my organizmal bio teacher: the reason you never hear about pork being cooking medium rare is that we are fairly closely related to pigs and so we are susceptible to many of the diseases that can infect pigs.

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      Meh, no, unless you trap them. Youve got to feed them a better diet than what they get in the wild. Also, this opinion resides heavily on the fact that industrially grown, bred and genetically manipulated pigs are damn delicious.

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    Hogs are big business here in Texas, where you can pay a couple thousand bucks to shoot them with a machine gun from a helicopter all day, so… what’s the problem? :P

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          Wild hogs live in “packs” (“sounders”, actually. Lulz.) as well. On all fronts, the hogs should win. Some of the bigger hogs could easily outweigh a wolf 5:1.

          These creatures are what nightmares are made of and I wish I could say I was joking or being sarcastic.

          Could a pack of wolves separate a hog from its pack and kill it? Sure. Not all hogs are hell-spawn. Regardless, we are also talking about mother nature’s true version of Medusa.

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      Wolves eat what ever is easiest to kill like endagered species that cant get away.

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    But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?

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    Probably not the same animals that need to be controlled, but boar is delicious!

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    Just launch all the nukes and make them all detonate to equally cover the entire continental US with fire and radiation … BOOM! … no more wild pigs!

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        Do you actually believe that a fascist wannabe dictator in the White House, an abjectly corrupt activist Supreme Court, and bought a sold oligarchs as the heads of departments are more of a problem than wild boar? Seriously?

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    Step 1 rank all of your problems.

    step 2, all problems above rank 99th, ain’t one.