The problem here is three-fold. Education, internet access and humor are the problems.
Someone obviously taught the bears to read hence the education part and the increasing ease of internet access in remote areas has meant the bears can now see that anyone shooting something less than an artillery piece on wheels is not a threat to them and any bear killed with less has obviously only died laughing at the stupidity of the mere mortal human thing trying to hurt it.
A .22lr can kill anything on the planet eventually, an ICBM can also kill anything on the planet and do it quicker. Somewhere in between is the middle ground and only experience can tell any of us where the best place on that middle ground is. Experience can also tell you what works fast enough to be ethical and responsible given a reasonable amount of skill on the part of the user. Guys like Phil are the voice of experience and they are the ones worth listening to.
