You can do it!

Largely harmless? You've never had one get trapped and you have to free it. Those things will take your fingers off without thick gloves.

Actually, I've personally killed one with a pitchfork because it was acting strangely, turns out after animal control retrieved it that it had some sort of tumor making it act unusually aggressive.

A guy I talked to at school shot an American one repeatedly with a .22 and it just came back later with several scars.

I didn't say it was easy, they are tough animals, I reach for something with more punch than a .22 if I need to drop one without wasting ammo, but I wasn't going to walk for a gun while this thing had my pigs going berserk. Admittedly I felt bad for it after the fact as its actions were not its own, and I forced it to suffer longer than it should have.