In Canada, because the gun restrictions were to onerous.
We Must have sensible Cold Steel Boar Spear laws now! Cold Steel Boar Spear kill things- they must be banned
Ban those Boar Spears! Can’t risk spearing or Canadians falling on their Boar Spears. Maybe we should pass law too before the come to America. /s
These jerks have a lot of nerve telling people how they can defend themselves. Maybe one day Canadians will throw these tyrants into a room full of mountain lions...with a hardy “good luck”.
Always thought a boar spear had a larger crossbar to prevent the boar from running up the spear...will have to consider getting me one of these just the same...
On the subject of stupidity of self-defense laws in English-speaking countries, had you seen this one?:
British farmer charged with attempted murder after firing paintball gun to warn trespasser
https://krugersdorpnews.co.za/359564/british-farmer-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-firing-paintball-gun-to-warn-trespasser/
When spears are outlawed only outlaws will have spears..................
I never realized I needed a boar spear, but now I want one.
I’ll bet that would also work on large dogs.
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That’ll do. Stick that in any cats face and they’ll stop and paw at it. They can even use the shaft as a walking stick while not defending themselves against hostile critters.
In this situation, I had pull a 3S (shoot, shovel, shut up) on the cougar. I'd make sure that the Mrs. knew to NEVER, EVER tell anyone about it, not her sisters, not her mom, the kids, NO ONE. If anyone ever asks about the cougar, we'd just tell them that it must have wondered off.
I’d like to have a hiking staff with a quick, snap-in attachment at the top that would accept and lock-in the mofified butt of a 10 or 12 inch sheath knife.
Perfectly innocent hiking accouterments that can combine into a lethal defensive weapon.
Canada....
Sheesh.
Britain Redux.
And when Mr. Mountain lion dodges the spear, then what?
I think I see the problem here.
Rick and Sandy do not want their story to become a reason to fear and hate mountain lions. They say this was just one bad lion.
What was bad about it? It did what mountain lions do. Do they think other lions eat carrots and kale?
Little attention has been given to the fact that Canada's restrictive firearms laws led to Rick resorting to a spear. Who knows what might have happened if Sandy had a pistol in a holster instead of bear spray hooked in her belt?
Yeah, Canada's gun laws suck but she couldn't find the pepper spray on her belt and probably couldn't have found a pistol there either the way the lion stalked and surprised her. Which is exactly how lions that aren't vegans hunt.
They had a chance to scare this lion far away from them months before. A gun would have been very useful for that then. Since Canaduh doesn't allow that a very large firecracker might have sufficed. Or are those illegal too? Could be. Point is, wild animals give wide berth to humans they think are hunting them and they don't know the difference between the report of a gun and an explosive.
Wait, wait! He speared the mountain lion??? The lions were there first!!!!
Its ok. Its not a semi-automatic boar spear. However, we must be on our guard to prevent people from possessing bump shafts for these killing machines.