[LaEscopeta]

It is responsible because the police realized firearm use was not required. Instead if the knee-jerk reaction of “OMG it COULD try to attack, so we better shoot it right now.”

(In my neck of the woods there have been a couple of cases recently of police shooting pet dogs because they said they felt threatened. The dog owners said the dogs were just barking. Cases are currently in court.)

Anyway…


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11020965

'Tame' bears guard Canadian marijuana farm


(edited to remove the text. Please visit the link, folks. New copyright/fair use/attribution policy is in the works)

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48789000/jpg/_48789808_010000951-1.jpg

[Guns and more]

The right to arm bears, no doubt.

[heron]

So, what were these farmers going to do about the bears when it came time to harvest the crop?

[ldsgeek]

Probably lead them away with bowls of food, harvest the crop, then spread more food where they wanted the bears to stay.

[hso]

This one's going to be difficult to stay open.

It's easy to focus on the cool bear part of the story, but it's not exactly within scope for THR. Let's try hard to make this relevant to firearms and hunting and security/safety.

For hunters these bears are habituated to humans and won't behave as bears normally would. I'm not sure how that would complicate the hunting of these black bears in the future, but I could see bears with no caution around humans being a danger if they loose the "affection" for their old care givers. For home owners, once the bears start missing their care givers they can become problem wildlife associating humans with friendly sources of food. Anytime that happens they either have to be darted and moved or destroyed before or because they've become a safety threat to the homeowner.

As to the officers not treating the bears like a threat, that's a lot of presence of mind to recognize that the bears were not behaving in a threatening way. They probably weren't authorized to shoot the bears anyway not being wildlife cops.

[Oyeboten]

Well...if one of the Bears is a female, and, she has some Cubs.

Momma Bears can get a little zealous in 'pprotecting' their Babys/Youngsters from strangers approaching.


But glad to hear good judgement prevails in any context where superficially, force of violence might have been elected, and justifitied however thinly.


People's or LEO's unwitting projections or emotional indulgences about 'threat' have often led to imagining 'threats' where none existed, or, when the threat level was so mild, and improbable, requiring at most, only a little manners or diplomacy or respect to eliminate and put things onto a nice fotting for all concerned.

Some people, or some LEO, instead, tend to use every wile and assertion to try and provoke or escalate a projected 'threat' in their own minds, in order then to be violenet in their address or rebuke of it.


This is very real danger for anyone who Carries, and, even for those who may not, if for any reason, one is or can be construed to be some sort of 'suspect' on any pretext...or, if someone not LEO is in the throes of resentment or power displays, seeking victims.