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Unharmful_Truths t1_itz52o8 wrote

Reply to comment by 96greenmonster in This is nuts. by therealcocochanel

I've spent a LOT of time in upstate New York (where my dad, grandparents, etc are from). Talking like Corning, Horseheads, etc. There are a LOT of bears there. My grandfather would keep an unloaded shotgun by the window. When a bear would curiously come up and start pawing at the window and looking at us he would pick up the unloaded shotgun, pump it once and point it at the bear. EVERY TIME the bear would open its eyes wide with fear and run away.

So they are savvy enough to know what a gun is but not savvy enough to know if its loaded.

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Kinuika t1_itz82b3 wrote

To be fair I’m also savvy enough to know what a gun is but also savvy enough to get the heck away from one pointed at my face unloaded or not!

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Unharmful_Truths t1_itz87km wrote

Oh same. Except I have an old rifle in my attic and when I have people check out the roof or put in a fan or anything (my family never goes up there) I'm like "dont' be scared! it doesn't work" and then when they get their head level with the floor a rifle is pointing at their head. And I'm like "I really need to move that one day!" (same thing happens 3-years later)

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