There's a lesson here for all of us . . .

[Vern Humphrey]

. . . if we could only figure it out..

From the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 12th, 2013:

Matthew Dyer, a Maine lawyer who survived a polar bear attack in Canada, said he wouldn’t have traveled to the remote Torngat Mountains National Part if he had thought his safety depended on his ability to kill a bear, adding that going into the park unarmed was “a gamble I nearly lost.”

 

[45_auto]

Pretty easy for me to figure out:

Stay south of I-10 (I hate cold) and you won't have to worry about polar bear attacks.

 

[OptimusPrime]

What a stoopid comment. I wouldn't travel unarmed anywhere if my safety depended on killing a bear while I was there. Life throws you curves, Mr. Dyer.

 

[beatledog7]

I can't defend myself against some things--meteorites, for example.

But I can carry a firearm, and that can protect my life from countless kinds of otherwise deadly encounters. So I do.

 

[gspn]

Quote from same article where they asked the bear what happened:

" I was just sitting there when this dude walks up. I saw no indication that he was armed, and i was hungry, so I tried to eat him. I dunno what all the fuss is about...I do this stuff every day...suddenly it's an issue?"

 

[DNS]

So the lawyer tasted bad.
Knowing what bears eat thats really something to consider.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Ya got a point there -- there are lots more lawyers than polar bears.

 

[huntsman]

someday you get the bear someday the bear gets you, I guess he was on the wrong day but seriously he isn't smart enough to know the risks ahead of time? Polar bears hunt people.

“We were being stalked. And what happened that night was a hunt,” Isenberg told KPHO-TV.

Parks Canada is investigating why the electric fence failed to deter the bear.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/maine-lawyer-who-survived-polar-bear-attack-says-animal-busted-me-up-pretty-good/2013/08/23/1dc0aa60-0c12-11e3-89fe-abb4a5067014_story.html

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Polar bears hunt people.

Yep. The polar bear is the largest land carnivore on Earth, and the only one that routinely sees humans as prey -- man-eaters among other species are rare and usually old animals that can't hunt their normal prey.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

I'm having trouble finding the firearms content here...