“No. Sarah Palin is not a bear expert.”
I am amused.
Sarah Palin lives in AK, a very much outdoors person, married to an autdoors person...both fishers and hunters, but she is no expert.
You live in NJ and are an expert.
Amusing.
“No. Sarah Palin is not a bear expert.”
Sarah Palin Bear Expert, Sarah Palin Bear Expert.....
OOOPS I must stop thinking naughty thought!!!!
Really?
Well she is the MAMMA GRIZZLY!
But I think even so, Sarah would never describe herself as a “bear” expert.
Not a NJ black bear expert, nor an Alaska brown bear expert.
It might be because her degree isn’t in biology, or because she has never studied bears or been involved in bear studies.
But Sarah might know more than the average bear having been subjected to many studies and experts on bears in her time as Governor. As well as the experience you noted.
Point taken.
But just living in Alaska doesn’t make you a brown bear expert any more than living in the Poconos makes me a black bear expert.
Also, once again, let’s keep in mind that people who are hunting have guns. They don’t carry bear spray. They are unlikely to have any experience with bear spray.
Hikers and runners(like Sarah) are the ones most likely to carry bear spray and not a firearm (Sarah carries neither when running). Firearms are heavy and the best ones for using against bears are even heavier. The other concern is legality. Just recently made it legal in national parks for instance.
The guys who are bear experts, who studied the efficacy of bear spray, who have degrees in biology and animal behavior, who have also hunted bears!,they say it’s effective.
Also all the people who survived bear attacks because they used bear spray.
Yeah, I’m going to trust them.