on the folks with bears in the back yard........ I'd sure keep a 12 ga or 20 ga pump loaded with slugs by the front & back doors.... that you need to be dern proficient with.... bears, especially black bears that lose their fear of humans are a bad thing to have around your home...........on the whole black bears stalk kill & eat humans for food far more often than grizzlies or the brown bears, who kill folks because we intrude on their domain, or we surprise them......... only polar bears look on humans as being a food/meat source too....

a small child is a chew toy for a black bear........... far less trouble to harvest than yearling deer, elk or moose calf..........just saying guys....... be careful................