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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
One needs to be a very good shot to kill a charging 500lb bear under pressure, you might just piss him off so he eats your face before he feels the bullet in his shoulder. Personally I'd like to have both, spray him, blind him enough to get a few lethal shots off.
Having said that, I still don't want firearms carried by trigger happy idiots in our national parks.
Want to be safe in bear country this time of year?, travel in large groups or stay home.
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If you unloaded a clip of handgun bullets into a bear's face and chest, you're likely going to stop most attacks. Yes bears have thick skulls, but when they are charging you are mostly seeing the face and chest, which are relatively large targets and soft spots filled with organs.
A bear attack, from what I've seen, isn't a quick process either. It seems to be drawn out and quite gruesome. Most bears aren't going to stick around and pick at our corpse while they have internal bleeding in their lungs.
As far as the heat of the moment thing, spraying bear spray at a bear is going to be equally hard.
I also think that having everyone walking around with guns, however, is likely to result in far more injuries and deaths than bears ever would.