That's what happens when you get transplants moving here cause they want to try their hand at country life. Ignore em.
I had a similar situation once. Buddy and I riding down the road, stopped to chat with some people that lived down the road, who saw our guns (an SAA on my hip and another in a saddle horn holster, same for him)...
"Do you really need to ride around with those things?"
They don't talk to us anymore
With all due respect ma'am, we're clearly too large to be riding dogs.