bears don’t cause a lot of fatalities, the data aggregated here suggests that there were 46 fatalities in North America, in the span of 17 years.
Meanwhile you look at 2019 murder statistics in the US alone: 10,335 murders perpetrated by men in a single year;
Now you have to divide that number by the number of encounters with a strange man and with a bear if you want to be intellectually honest.
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