Jackson Jambalaya

This is an example of why President Obama approved allowing firearms possession in National Parks.
The other reasons would be panthers, moose, and boars, etc.

11:21 "Despite all the wild animals in protected parkland, wildlife only killed six people over those seven years. Grizzly bears killed four people, a mountain goat killed one visitor, and one person died from a snakebite, the National Park Service reports."

You would need a significant firearm to defend against a bear that size and be able to hit it in an extremely vital place. What is more likely is someone with a small 9mm or .38 Special pistol shoots that bear and angers it. Then it charges and kills the person. Too many people overestimate the immediate lethality of a handgun. They are used to the movies where a person drops like a rock. It doesn't work that way.

Don't get me wrong, I support firearm possession on Constitutional grounds, but I also understand they can give a false sense of security and lead people to engage in risky behavior they normally wouldn't. For most people shooting a bear would be worse than doing nothing.

Alasandros Mum? Nothing much happening in Madison or Flowood? I can't resist asking why some damned fool is video-ing this with a telephone instead of reaching for a rifle. One lunge and two leaps and they'd both be eviscerated.

He just wanted to play.
Wasn’t going to hurt anyone.
Geez. Give a bear a break.
Quit stereotyping.

Kid had a bag of snacks that should have been the first thing dropped. Why do you think bear targeted him to begin with?

this is an example of why women and camping don't mix

That bear looks just like smokey the bear without the hat. He probably just wanted to pass along a friendly public service message or was looking for a pic a nic basket...

1:12, this is a cautionary tale about why humans and bears don’t mix, regardless of gender, you idiot. Camping in a bear’s known habitat!? What a really stupid idea. Do it if you want to get your own ass eaten alive, but don’t expose your children to that real threat.

before all you humanoids wet your pants over this, consider how many people are killed by other people versus killed by bears.

I ran across this non PC news (AP) in an old article about a year ago....

Sept. 30, 1960
He Man Bags 6 Bears in Tree Near House
ISHPEMING, Mich. (AP) Roy Cardew bagged six bears Thursday from a maple tree in his yard at the nearby village of National Mines. One bear got away. Cardew's dogs set up a howl about 2 a.m. and refused to be shushed. Cardew got a flashlight and shined it into the maple, under which the dogs were yapping in wild excitement. Up the tree were seven bears, two adults and five cubs, not more than 50 feet from Cardew's home. Cardew tore back into the house, grabbing a rifle and awakening his sons, Russell and Lowell, to be light bearers. Cardew began banging away. When he stopped, six bears, an adult and five cubs, were dead. The other adult had escaped into nearby woods. Conservation officer Art Sa-viluoto of Ishpeming said he'd never seen anything like the bear-littered sight under the maple, and he'd never heard of that many bears coming that close to a house all at once.

Here's what bothers me...the stepdad (think the news said stepdad) is filming this and posting it. A parents gut is to protect their child first and foremost.