I stopped reading this guys spew when I got to:
“I wouldn’t trust them to drop anything larger than a Sitka blacktail deer, and certainly not a brown bear. I’d rather be armed with pepper spray. Or bottle rockets. Or a bell.”
I almost stopped at “too lazy to carry a shotgun or rifle”, and then did stop at the exact same place as you. Those words reveal this guy is a complete moron, and/or thinks his readership is, too. I’m thinking “and”, and that they indeed are.