"You do know Seer, that the military has often given Honorably Discharge papers to people they want out and who were NOT really good soldiers, don't you?" ap

I saw a televised interview with McVeigh's former military commander.
I believe one of the commander's comments was: I wish I had a whole company of McVeighs.
That does not suggest to me that McVeigh was not a really good soldier.
"i know what a bb gun is." Lance

Lance,
Did you know that the "BB" in "BB gun" stands for "ball bearing"?
"- unless it was loaded with rifled slugs." who

I had magnum slugs in mind. Rifling is useful, for longer range shots.
But at ranges long enough for rifling to matter, you're not killing the bear for self defense; you're hunting.

I wouldn't want to kill such an animal unless it was obviously intent to and undertaking to attack me to do me harm. The accuracy rifling would impart to a 12 ga. slug at such range would only mean millimeters one way or another, on the target. And the target in this case is between or in the bear's eyes.

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2