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Well I just got back from a two week hiking/camping trip and I am defiantly not a liberal in the stereotypical term. I really don't fit into any political party as a whole but several like many of us. Let me put it this way; I have no loyalty to any political party!

Anyways, I was at a national park and a park ranger came by and told us and other campers about the local bears and how they have had a problem with one. After the park ranger left many of the more typical "liberal people" if you can call them that talked about what they would do if a bear came into their tent and asked what would I do? Well I didn't give them an honest answer considering I was carrying my 10mm, bear mace and a very loud marine air horn which I know from backpacking in west Texas will scare off mountain lions and coyote.

Now saying that these people were more liberal was just my observation to what they were saying about personal protection and where they said they were from. Several were from California and they obviously didn't carry firearms from their demeanor. I was kind of joking the whole time and told them to just do what the park ranger said and wished them a good night and hoped Smokey, Yogi or Boo Boo didn't come to visit them.

They looked at me with a stare like "what a sick joke" and then asked where I was from. I said Texas and then one lady who was sleeping in a VW van with all her food said, “I know whose tent I am running to if a bear comes". I just laughed and said have a good night and my guess was they assumed that all Texans carry guns even though we know this is not true. I also thought this was a little funny because the lady started off her conversation by telling me they have bears in Sequoia national. She had encountered bears before but still didn't take necessary precautions?

On a side note there were many people who were going down trails without enough water or were obviously physically to unfit and several turned around after 2-3 miles because they got to tired or realized they didn’t bring enough water or they brought too much and their packs were too heavy. I never got their voter registration card so I couldn’t tell you if it was stamped one party or the other. LOL

I think it has more to do with prepared and unprepared people then liberal or conservative or whatever name you want to put on it.