Had one cruise in my dog door when a friend was house sitting. So I learned a lot about black bears after that.
“imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury”
You could always shoot them in that case. In any case, what problem are they trying to solve here?
And as to the, “shoot first ask questions later”, you could already do that. If I wanted to hunt or kill a black bear, I’d simply say it was attacking me. And who would say different?
Ahhh, but if you read the article, this is different. This redefines it to “if you PERCEIVE there to be a threat of death or injury” - meaning that any suburban cowboy can just blast the bear wandering through their backyard and not hurting anyone because “well I figured it would hurt my kids if it came towards the house”. Kinda like how Wyoming relaxed hunting laws to allow farmers to kill pretty much whatever wolves they came across.
Thank God he’s protecting us from black bears The only bear that we can scare away. If a grizzly is coming at you unless you got a really powerful weapon you’re done and if a polar bear notices you you’re done. Black bear wave your arms and run at it and it’s scared away… there’s a video of two old people walking out of their house with a black bear on the porch… They don’t see the black bear but it sees them and turns around running scared as hell…
Don’t take it personally. The world is crazy right now and people (including me) get a little… defensive… from having to have more “I can’t believe this is something I need to talk about” conversations than I think any of us ever anticipated. Looking at it again your word choice wasn’t even off. Hope you’re having a good day.
A fucking bear tv show where the bear lived with Clint Howard whose dad was a forest ranger in the everglades. Just like Lassie and Flipper except with a bear.
There’s a bunch of black bears in NW Florida. During the hell years I lived there 911 would get calls about them in yards and the advice was to leave them alone unless they are hurting someone. Animal control wouldn’t come out if there wasn’t a threat. They were usually just meandering between forest patches. And it was illegal to shoot them in most circumstances; especially since most of this was in subdivisions.
This would effectively allow cowboys to start blasting in your neighborhoods. Probably leaving rotting corpses of young black bears on the corner or in the streets.
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