It seems like the bears need protection!
Posted on 05/25/2023 6:15:55 AM PDT by marktwain
On May 18, 2023, the Connecticut Senate voted to rectify a defect in their state law. The new law would allow people whose lives and/or pets were threatened by bears to kill the animal. If a bear attempts to enter a building occupied by a person, the person can kill the bear. These commonsense reforms were likely prompted by the experience of Sgt. Lawrence Clarke. Clarke’s situation occurred a year previous to the vote in the Connecticut Senate.
On May 12, 2022, Sgt. Clarke killed an aggressive black bear that had damaged his property, killed his livestock, seemed unafraid of people, and was watching his grandson with a predatory stare. The officer used his personal target-grade AR15-type rifle to shoot the bear. He was off duty at the time. The incident was investigated. The officer was put on paid leave. Some people were outraged a person dare kill a bear with an AR15. Officer Clarke was found to be fully justified.
One “animal rights” lawyer declared there was no provision in Connecticut law to allow a person to kill a bear to protect people or property. From greenwichtime.com:
Per Throckmorton’s interpretation, state laws make it illegal to “take” a bear in Connecticut, with no statutory exception for protecting yourself, livestock, or poultry against a bear.
In the AmmoLand article, Connecticut Fish and Game code 26-72 was quoted:
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Honestly officer i thought he was a bear.
why not simply establish Bear-Free Zones?
The right to bear bear arms.
It seems like the bears need protection!
I know a guy in Maine who’s sister was bitten by a moose...
Virus rights lawyers “your honor, so and so took some ivermectin and killed the defenseless virus. We demand that he serve 30 to life for such a heinous act of wonton slaughter of innocent viri”
I hope she survived. Moose can hurt you.
Prediction: any bears killed will be black.
I think killing a bear during an attack falls into the ask forgiveness rather than permission category IMO.
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.😏
So the government is *allowing* people to do something?
How tyrannical of them.
“I hope she survived. Moose can hurt you.”
It was meant to be somewhat of a joke :-)
However - one of my clients (long story - going through a divorce) rented her home out for 18 months to a neighbor because his home was destroyed in a fire — and he was stomped on by a moose there. IIRC he had 118 stitches on his face...
Bad Mo-Fos!
If a bear comes into my house, I don’t need some bureaucrat telling me it’s ok to kill it. I can figure that out on my own.
We live in the Colorado mountains and, just yesterday at 5am, my wife and I woke up to noises on our porch, which usually means a bear. Well, it was a brown bear, but this thing was enormous!! Had to be 700-800 pounds, and it stood over 7 feet to the snout to reach the hummingbird feeder. This one was about as beg as the grizzlies I saw in Alaska. We’re on vacation now, but hope my trailcams got pictures.
Connecticut law has been structured so that nearly everything to do with taking wild animals is prohibited, except as allowed by state regulatory agencies. Wild animals are defined as virtually all animals except rats and mice.
I'm of the opinion that they should add politicians to the rats and mice list..
Make sure to inform the bear you will be acting in accordance to the new law and ask that he sign a consent before proceeding.
***The officer used his personal target-grade AR15-type rifle to shoot the bear.***
Sounds like one of those bowdlerized AR-15s still for sale all through Clinton’s joke of a ban.
Kiosks. We need kiosks.
Where social workers will provide..ah..
bear hugs!
Bear arms. You have a right to them.
At band camp.
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