Dear anti-gun environmentalist polar bear hugging wackos,
The bears have settled in the fields outside a weather station on the island of Vaygach in the Arctic Sea, preventing researchers from leaving the building to conduct their work, the World Wide Fund for Nature in Russia said in a statement.
The team, which consists of two meteorologists and an engineer, tried to scare them off with flares, but the bears were undeterred — and the Russian WWF says the team has no other weapons at its disposal.
I sometimes wonder if the human race is unique in its ability to move from the most badass super-predator of all terran history to helpless prey with one simple omission.
Abdicating brains generally has negative consequences. Looking at the picture of the station, I’m sure people *with* brains could gin up some weapons if they were to make the effort. The Eskimos didn’t have guns, yet they seem to have gotten by.
Yeah, this is pretty strange. I know a number of people who do arctic research and they all go out heavily armed. Even those who are in favor of stronger gun control tote rifles and shotguns as they understand that, in those locales, it is very clearly a part of standard safety equipment.