Actually, Betsy DeVos, guns are a pretty lousy way to ward off grizzlies

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/01/18/actually-betsy-devos-guns-are-a-pretty-lousy-way-to-ward-off-grizzlies/?utm_term=.61fafbd82eb0


This logic was widely lampooned, in large part because invading grizzlies — animals that occupy only about 2 percent of their original range in the Lower 48 — do not represent a great threat to the vast majority of America’s schoolchildren. Even in the four states where grizzlies are found, attacks are very rare. Your chances of being injured by one in the grizzly ground zero of Yellowstone National Park are 1 in 2.7 million, according to the National Park Service.

So might keeping an anti-grizzly gun on school grounds actually make sense there?

Not according to many bear and wildlife experts, who say that bear spray — a kind of pepper spray — is a far better deterrent for an attacking bear. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which addressed this question head-on in a grizzly fact sheet titled “Bear Spray vs. bullets: Which offers better protection?” comes down squarely on the side of bear spray. It notes that its own investigations of human-bear encounters found that people who defended themselves with firearms ended up injured half the time. Those who used pepper spray, on the other hand, usually escaped injury, while those who were attacked suffered less serious wounds and endured shorter assaults.


Audra Morrow, a former teacher at an elementary school in Cody, Wyo., which is not far from Wapiti, told Mic that a fence and bear spray seemed to serve as perfectly sufficient security measures against the threat of grizzlies.

“No firearms in our schools!” Morrow wrote to Mic. “We do have bear spray but have never had a problem that would require using it.”

[Cooley Hurd]

1. If the Waltons taught me anything, it was how to ward off grizzlies...

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[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. That looked like a black bear.

People who watched TV in the 70's know this is what always happens whenever grizzlies are nearby:

[FarCenter]

2. Depends on the gun and the shooter.