It also sounds like, going by your interpretation of the chain of events, that they shot at the pigs while the kids were still in the garden that was swarmed by

It also sounds like, going by your interpretation of the chain of events, that they shot at the pigs while the kids were still in the garden that was swarmed by said pigs. All the while seeming to ignore the fact they have a rather large hole in their fence if multiple colonies of feral hogs worth of feral hogs can enter the garden in a very short space of time.