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I do a fair amount of solo bikepacking in the rural Midwest, and have gotten into enough weird altercations that I now ride and camp with a concealed pistol.
A few years ago, I would have called anyone doing this exact same thing a psychopath. I give myself endless amounts of shit for having a "bicycle gun" and would be fucking mortified if anyone I casually ride with found out, but I'm also intensely aware of how batshit crazy and divorced from reality the average redneck is.
Brother, I went camping twice in the South and both times, I had some serious weirdos on the trail. One redneck asked us if we "had any guns on us". What?
My camping partner said, "If we pull it out, we use it." And the dude ran off.