TEA PARTY TO AMERICA: NOW WHAT?!

JTT's "numbers" are just incorrect as anyone could have seen just from the numbers in NJ for the lst decade.

Fatal attacks overall by Black Bears on humans are quite rare. To date, only 60 people have been killed in Black Bear attacks across North America since 1900, and 45 of those deaths took place in Alaska or Canada, where there is usually little contact between bears and people. The fatal attacks that have occurred were primarily unprovoked, predatory assaults in remote areas in which the victim was eaten. There is no consistent explanation why 1 out of every 1/2 million Black Bears becomes a human predator.

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Although I have a great amount of appreciation for Professor Lynn Rogers and the black bear research he has done over the past few decades, I am a bit cautious about some of the recent material he has written. Particularly statements like this regarding common sound advice which is posted regularly by all wildlife agencies across the U.S.:

"Realizing how little science and how little first-hand experience is behind the well-meaning advice, we have tested as much of it as possible. We have not found a way to reliably elicit an attack. In fact, in 43 years, we've never been attacked, even when holding screaming cubs in our hands with mother bears present. We've seen lots of bluff charges, but no attacks. The closest we've come to eliciting attacks is when we tackled bears, which we quit doing decades ago. Of course, the bears bit and clawed their way free, but then they ran instead of attacking."


http://larrywbrown.blogspot.com/2010/02/black-bear-attacks.html

JTT's "numbers" are just incorrect as anyone could have seen just from the numbers in NJ for the lst decade.

According to Herrero, the estimated
900,000 black bears across North America
in the 1990s caused 29 human deaths during that decade. In contrast, 44 fatal black
bear attacks occurred in the entire 20th
century. That means 65.9 percent of black
bear attacks have taken place in the last 10
percent of the century.
So far in the 2000s, 11 fatal attacks have
occurred — three of them in 2005.

http://www.ejmagazine.com/2005b/pdfs/bears.pdf

There survives a letter from The Author of the Declaration of Independence,
America 's 3rd President and the Founder of the University of Virginia
to his 12 year old nephew wherein he warns the boy to always take his gun with him
when he goes out walking, and advised him to practice with it for proficiency.

There survives a letter from The Author of the Declaration of Independence,
America 's 3rd President and the Founder of the University of Virginia
to his 12 year old nephew wherein he warns the boy to always take his gun with him
when he goes out walking, and advised him to practice with it for proficiency.

I highlighted the areas that are speculative in nature.
He never warns him to take the gun. He never tells him to practice for proficiency.

In order to assure a certain progress in this reading, consider what hours you have free from the school and the exercises of the school. Give about two of them every day to exercise; for health must not be sacrificed to learning. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Never think of taking a book with you. The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Warning me to not get wet is not the same thing as warning me to always take an umbrella.

He wasn't warned to take his gun. Advice is not a warning. Unless you want to argue that Jefferson was warning his nephew to read history and warning him to take his exercise in the afternoon and warning him to exercise in the morning.

Intense about what?

He talks about what books to read.
He talks about exercise and goes on and on about walking while mentioning a gun.

Clearly Jefferson wants his nephew to WALK. He doesn't want him to spend the 2 hours practicing his aim. He doesn't tell him he needs the gun to protect himself. He doesn't tell him to beware of cougars and bears. He wants his nephew to take a gun and NOT a book so his mind can relax and he can observe what is around him.

I guess if you want to make up what Jefferson said, let alone his meaning, I can't argue with you. I can only point out that your statements are not factual and not supported by anything other than your outlandish thoughts about guns.

So,.. which is it David?
Is the gun for self defense or is it for exercise? You can't seem to decide let alone follow what Jefferson said about it.

During the publicity tour for the release of the 1992 remake of The Last of the Mohicans, the reproduction Kentucky flintlock used by Daniel Day-Lewis in the film was described as weighing 30 pounds.

The Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle was a widely used gun of the Revolutionary War period.
If it did indeed weigh 30 pounds, then it was carried for exercise.