Dear Frank:Read what you posted about guns and wilderness.I have to almost laugh at your comments. I wish I could take people who are against guns and bring them up here for a visit—even in Anchorage we can have bears raiding the garbage cans ten feet from our front doors! Moose are almost daily visitors roaming through our yards. Plus all the would-be survivalists smoking their pot and acting out their craziness. One such young man from California came up with his girlfriend armed only with a camera so he could film his adventures in Alaska talking with bears, proving that it is only a matter of communication. Well, he wouldn’t listen to the game wardens and one day his theory paid off: he and the girlfriend were eaten alive.There is hardly anyone in Alaska who doesn’t hunt for responsible subsistence. We put in a garden and eat what we grow and fish for our salmon. King David killed a bear and a lion....with a slingshot. The point is he defended his sheep with the only weapon available.A good majority of us came up here for the same reasons you expressed...plus a few more: clean air, beautiful scenery, and freedom. You’d make a good neighbor. Come on up!Mary E. Adams