I was charged by a bear weighing 500 pounds or so, when I was 14, out hunting at Ft Bragg.

Supposedly there wasn't any bears in a long ways from there...

but he charged me and my brother in an opening in the brush, in a swamp...

My brother was sitting on a log and fell off of it... by the time he got up, it was all over.

The bear changed, I was carrying a Remington 870, with deer slugs in it.

Pumped it 5 times into the bear's head and front chest. After the 5 th shot, he dropped dead.

I never felt the recoil of that 12 gauge at the time.

"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC

“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez