[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Yeah, it is simple, that’s what people already do. Nobody is demanding they change it, people are wondering why that rule exists for all of a national park when there are areas that are indistinguishable from those where guns for wildlife protection are allowed.

On a per-encounter basis, I’d guess you’re more likely to be at higher risk with the bear. Tough the find stats that tell the whole story, but from a cruise through some info, it looks like wild animals have caused a lot more deaths of non-hunters than hunters have. And those are people actively out there looking to shoot something, not people carrying for protection.

Well yes, because the rules keep guns away from non-hunters...

Isn't it more relevant to see how humans fare when mingling with armed humans?


https://cssa-cila.org/hunting-accide...can-do-better/

“Thanks to a strong culture of safety in the firearms community, gun accidents are rare,” Mauser writes. “In the past five years (2015-2019), the most recent years statistics are available, 11 Canadians died each year from an accidental firearms injury.”

“This is less than half the number of accidental deaths in the early 2000s,” he says, “when 26 people lost their lives through firearms accidents.”

Non-specific to activity, but still a relevant number to see what happens when guns and humans mix.

Now I can't find a source for this, but I'm pretty sure the number of gun related accidental deaths are approximately 0 per year when guns are not present.


I think this study dates to the 90s and I did not read the actual study

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/..._4/p6.html#a61

Canadian research is limited on the circumstances of firearm accidents, such as hunting and other types of accidents, and individual and environmental factors. Researchers recently conducted a study in Quebec and found that 37 percent of accidental deaths resulted from a hunting incident; five percent occurred when the shooter was carrying a firearm; and 48 percent occurred during other activities. In 55 percent of cases, the shooter accidentally shot himself.

We can slap all these numbers together and see that at least a few people die each year from hunting related accidents.

From 1970-2018 there were 21 fatalities from grizzly attacks in Canada...but most of these happened outside National Parks, most likely where people were free to possess firearms.
(https://grizzlybearfoundation.com/bl...y-in-the-yukon)

Now that is all very lazy first google result stuff, feel free to tear it to shreds. I found a good list of fatal attacks in N.A. that I'll wade through to see how many times a firearm might have helped within a national park