The only study ever conducted into bear spray’s efficacy found that, in an actual bear attack, bear spray was only totally effective one-third of the time.
I’ll wait while you wipe off the coffee you just spat on your computer screen.
The reason why you find that number so surprising is that it runs completely counter to the omnipresent propaganda spread by people that think you’re too stupid to handle the truth.
The common claim about bear spray is that it’s more effective than a firearm. The trouble is, that claim is in no way connected to reality.
I explored this in detail in Outside, before that publication fired me for writing articles like that. The origin story for it is that the PR department at BYU was desperate for a headline, so convinced a journalist at The New York Times who really should have known better to conflate the results of two different studies in order to reach a conclusion not supported by the science.
Source: the scientist who conducted those two studies. I called Tom Smith up at his home in Alaska, and he told me, “The appearance that bear spray outperforms firearms was not the focus of our work.”
The quick explanation there is that Smith conducted two different studies (among many others). The one about bear spray was intended to give federal conservation agencies the data they needed to give their workers bear spray for use in field work. Smith told me that most of the incidents he studied were, “largely intentional hazings, not surprise-encounter-type situations.”
The study on firearms that’s so often compared set out with an entirely different purpose and methodology. It was designed not to produce a conclusion on whether or not firearms are effective at stopping bear attacks, but rather to study the reasons why firearms sometimes fail to stop a bear. As such, Smith purposely selected incidents in which firearms failed, while excluding data sets that demonstrated their success.
No study has ever set out to compare the success rate of firearms to the success rate of bear spray. Anyone who ever suggests otherwise is lying to you.
And the entire problem with that conversation isn’t the false conclusion that’s so widely spread, it’s the binary framing of firearm vs spray, when a much more effective conversation would simply be built around preventing a bear from attacking you in the first place.
— Wes Siler in Bear Spray Is A Placebo
I know for a fact that a stroll through the woods armed with nothing but bear spray is at least as safe as jogging down a Denver International Airport runway.
The results of either encounter can be nearly indistinguishable.
There Is a Lot of ‘Privilege’ Going on Out Here, and Most of It Is for the Left.
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Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming.
“Something big is on the horizon — and the people saying so aren’t fringe voices on a podcast. They’re senior Trump administration officials.
Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday: hard evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election is coming, and it’s coming soon. ‘He did win in a landslide, and we will soon be able to give evidence about that,’ Crowley said.
Now, she didn’t lay out a timeline or spell out exactly what the evidence would look like, but the message was clear.
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Fulton County, GA, has basically admitted that it certified an uncertifiable election. There’s no doubt that happened in other states as well. The election results would have been impossible to audit the day after the election, and here we are years later. Dems used mail-in ballots and inaccurate voter rolls to elect a senile puppet to the White House (not addressing the legal manipulation/rigging that occurred). Then they invited over 10 million illegals from third world countries to come here and have loads of citizen children to support the future of the Democratic Party, which has given up on existing American citizens.
Most normie-type Dems are completely oblivious to this and all of the other Dem scandals of the past decade. They’ve been conditioned to ignore any evidence that would challenge their worldview of Dems are the good guys and Reps are the bad guys.
New Jersey’s Second Amendment Catch-22.
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Ya knew the ‘violence interruption’ NGO’s were scams: Minnesota ‘violence interruption’ non-profit We Push for Peace sued for ‘rampant abuse’ of donations.
“We Push for Peace, a non-profit founded by Trahern Pollard following the death of George Floyd, was created to provide “conflict de-escalation” services and received millions of dollars through government contracts.
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Another Minnesota nonprofit is facing a lawsuit over allegations of widespread financial abuse, including the misuse of more than $6 million in taxpayer funds for personal expenses such as trips to Las Vegas and child support payments.
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Pollard used organization money to pay child support obligations, settle IRS tax bills, and subsidize private businesses, including a liquor store and a used car dealership. Pollard … also … sent false statements under penalty of perjury. He claimed the child support payment was ‘nonprofit overhead, and a $35,000 payout to his friends was described as ‘Chicago payroll.’
The lawsuit also names former director Jaclyn McGuigan, who served as the charity’s treasurer. McGuigan is accused of transferring $1,000 per week from the nonprofit’s funds into her personal account and improperly using government grant funds for so-called ‘administrative’ expenses.
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My bear spray delivery system weighs 54 ounces, has a 6-inch barrel, and sprays 240 grain .43 caliber lead projectiles at a velocity of 1,400 feet-per-second.
Bonus: my bear spray delivery system works perfectly even where there is a strong wind blowing from the bear back at me. Plus, my bear spray delivery system also works perfectly at distances several times farther than 15 feet.
It’s a common manipulation to push a narrative. Notice how they also conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration to argue for unlimited immigration. How do you destroy a civilization? Open the borders to quickly dilute (and thus change) the culture.