Stuart Bower is surely having a laugh when he says 260 million Americans live alongside the Puma (Letters, August 1).

Pumas are indigenous only to 18 states. There are 1.6 firearms registered for every adult American.

Given their enthusiasm for shooting first and asking questions later, I would say the odds of a Puma surviving a morning stroll through a US town or city to be roughly zero.

I imagine very few people live alongside Pumas in America.

-Kevin Bence, Brighton