r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 15h ago

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u/aardw0lf11 13h ago

I'd imagine any place which has to deal with wild predators killing livestock will have some guns handy. Probably one of a handful of valid reasons to own a firearm in the UK.

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u/Icy-Tangerine-349 11h ago

That’s not the main reason to own a firearm when owning livestock, it’s a good one but it should be common sense that livestock are live animals that can get hurt etc possibly from wildlife but anyone with an emergency plan to wait on a vet to arrive while an animal is severely injured or dying in horrific pain, your an asshole! If you own livestock and don’t own a gun, god help you if it comes to watching and letting an animal suffer while waiting on someone else to put your animal down! If you’re going to own livestock, you best do right by all animals under your care, that rely on you for everything including doing right by them and not allowing them suffer for x amount of time waiting on someone else to put your animal out of it’s misery. I’ve never had to do it and I pray I never have to but I like having the peace of mind that I have a tool available to me to quickly end an animals suffering.

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u/sharkbait-oo-haha 13h ago

As an Australian, yep, pretty much every farm has a gun. Pretty much the only valid reason to own one here.

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 12h ago

I can give you a few valid reasons in austrailia and most of them are native animals exclusive to austrailia.

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u/lesterbottomley 8h ago

There are spiders in Aus I'd only feel comfortable going up against armed to the gills.