Originally Posted by Alex L
I think the term “stealth camping” provokes negative feelings only because always relates to landowner rights offending. However, in general this should not be supposed, just as any abuse.
People live according to their custom everywhere. And if something looks strange for one like “the double barrels of a 20-gauge” treatment, for others this is norm. The best way is to respect people’s feelings, even if we can’t understand them. Custom is formed historically and sometimes we just don’t know what was its base.
I've got to give you credit on a wonderful understanding of other cultures, be they across a state ro national border. Just because around here we tend to handle a firearm more often and with a lot more familiarity than say urban New York or Southen California, doesn't mean this place is Dodge City. We just tend to be a little more direct, old fashioned, and forbearing when we feel threatened.
Interestingly enough, my family comes from rural Slovakia (I'm second generation native American-born), and from what my father told me from his trips there, they would have no difficulty understanding the attitude at all.