I wouldn't touch that statement with the proverbial 10-foot pole!

(And I hope your gf doesn't, either. you might have an off-night, you know.) My gf doesn't like guns but she said that if she lived here, "I'd learn to shoot." Next time she's up for a visit I may take her to the range to try a couple of handguns. But I think she's thinking of bear defence and that's really not a likely scenario here. The only bear I've ever had to shoot was a 2 yr.-old cub that was gnawing on one of the neighbour's alpacas at 3:30am. My Marlin 1894 loaded with 270 gr FP handled that quite nicely. It's probably the only bear in B.C. with an epitaph. The little fella had been tagged by Conservation after being found as an orphan, raised and released 35 miles away.

Stuart