My father in law taught in Alaska many years ago. Carried a gun on his hip out at the playground in the fall when bears were fueling up for the winter and in the spring when winter long hunger drove them into town to fill up.
He always joked that a warning shot stopped running in the halls too.
6 posted on 09/23/2014 9:49:50 AM PDT by fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)