Now, if police don't seem to think a momma bear with cubs chasing someone might be a threat, then why in the hell do they shoot all those nice loveable little puppy dogs?
Heck, the biggest pit bull I have seen couldn't have been a third as tall as that cuddly momma bear, and would weigh in waay lighter to boot.
I’m hearing conflicting reports. The first said he had a shotgun with him when he went out to the bird feeder. The second suggests he saw the bear when he went out, went back to the house and returned to his backyard with a shotgun and shot the bear.
If he was surprised by the bear and had a shotgun in his hands, I certainly don’t blame him for shooting. If saw the bear, went inside to get his shotgun and then went back out, that’s hunting out of season without a license or poaching.
I live in a neighborhood of 6 acre lots in woods; way out of town. My neighbor lady came over and, in her southern accent said, “I hit a turkey with my car. Brought him home and fried him right up. And, somebody kilt a dear up thar at the front. Sweet little thing. Backed up and put it in my trunk. You want some hamburger...Oh, no! It’re good. Weren’t no flies on it or nothin’.” So, if I shot a bear in my backyard, I’d walk over to Vivian’s and says, “Want a bear?” She’d say, “I hert you firin’. Was just commin’ to see. Drag his ass over here.”
I thought he died in 1983.
I knew the Bama-Auburn rivalry was intense, but man I had no idea.
The State is incredibly, hopelessly stupid (and indifferent).
“Police don’t believe the bear was a threat to people.”
When Americans need for a policeman to have an opinion, they will give him one. Until such time, police are public servants, NOT issuers of mandatory advice/opinions to the public.
“Ahlstrand is now charged with illegally killing a bear, illegally baiting a bear, illegal possession of a firearm and failing to secure a weapon.”
Quite a collection of Taxachussetts violations, and deserving of a closer look.
1. Accused of illegally killing a bear. Basic charge, and the filing of it violates the man’s right to armed self defense. If the bear exhibited aggressive behavior, and such was the acused’s description of what happened, then the Masshole officials are violating this man’s Constitution guarantee to self defense and are so doing under color of law.
2. Since when is having a bird feeder “baiting a bear”??????
3. How possession of a long gun in ones home/home property can be defined as illegal escapes me. Obviously, I didn’t live in Taxachussetts long enough to understand the “Masshole Way”.
4.”Failing to secure a firearm?” He used it to shoot the bear! How can a ‘secured’ weapon be used to defend oneself?
Answer up, Massholes! Inquiring minds want to know.
Dogs, on the other hand...
| PERPETRATOR | QUALIFIER | THREAT STATUS | PERMISSIBLE RESPONSE |
| Dog | family pet | threat (to police) | shoot (police only) |
| Bear | mother of cubs? | NOT a threat (to non-police) | DO NOT shoot (non-police only) |
This just in from the ASSociated Presstitutes:
It wasn’t a bear. It was an “undocumented omnivorous ursid”, and the shooter violated its civil rights.
The same police who claim to have no obligation to actually "protect?" But they will collect your body in their spiffy SWAT outfits and deliver it to the coroner, whether the result of a human criminal or a bear. That police?
Ask for a jury trial, and then sue these megalomaniacs for malicious prosecution, pain and suffering.No fair impartial jury would convict. If I am dispensing "benefit of doubt," human or bear would be a no-brainer. Specially if the humans are paying my salary.