Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law
by cafard on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:33AM
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Let me chime in and say that there are credible reports of coyote in Washington, DC, and that bears are spotted now and then, mostly in the close-in suburbs, but once in the city itself. But let me also say, that I don't think I'd care to take on a bear with a handgun.
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Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law
by hga on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:39AM
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I certainly wouldn't want to take on a bear with a handgun and load that's optimized for incapacitating humans!
And avoidance is generally the best policy, but it's not an option for the police. So it's better than nothing, and there have been successful stops of bear attacks with these sorts of handguns.
Hmmm, a downside of replacing the police shotgun with "patrol carbines" (AR-15 variants, generally), you could always use slugs in the former, which are effective against bears.
Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law
by snowwrestler on Monday December 15, 2014 @01:45PM
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I've personally seen coyotes near DC, mostly in the Potomac River corridor northwest of town. The C&O Canal park is a nice long wildlife corridor and is chock full of coyote food like whitetail deer, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, etc.
That said, the idea that someone would need to carry a gun in that area to protect them from coyotes is laughable.