The Bear Necessities

Bear attack in Yellowstone National Park leaves 2 hikers injured [More]

The good news is:

Yes, you can carry a gun in Yellowstone.

The bad news is:

But it’s illegal to fire it – even in self defense.

Just think, the people who enacted and enforce that edict all swore an oath to the Constitution. I wonder what the Framers would have thought about that.

The Bear Truth

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission announced Friday night that a death near a campground in Newton County was the result of an animal mauling. A 60-year-old Missouri man was found dead yards from his campsite at Sam’s Throne after a possible bear attack in Ozark National Forest near the town of Mount Judea. [More]

Thing is, you can have a gun there, you just can’t be a d!ck with it.

Tell me the old boy wasn’t a “prohibited person.”

And I love the notice at the top of the USDA page: