Re: Backcountry Meetings

FMD wrote: "Do you honestly think carrying a gun will save you from being a victim or perhaps carrying a gun will even acerbate your ordeal even more?"

Bingo - feeling like Rambo without the training is a tragedy waiting to happen. And again, what if the gun gets taken (or, as he's from Baltimore, he decides to hike through Cunningham Falls park, which is near Camp David - I suspect that the secret service folks would take a rather dim view ...).