Okay, so I was having my monthly issue-of-the-moment facebook comments debate with a conservative-but-not-unreasonable friend of mine and I made an offhand bear mace joke. Then I took a shower and spent twenty minutes thinking about bear mace - and came to the conclusion that it is superior to guns in virtually all home defense situations. For those of you that haven't used it, bear mace is about twice as concentrated as human mace. It comes in massive cans and has a much wider spray cone - since, you know, you're trying to push back a BEAR. It's also been proven in countless studies that it's more effective in providing safety in bear encounters than guns are - by a HUGE margin . Gun make bear angry. Hello, angry bear. Mace cloud make bear no want to be here anymore. Goodbye, angry bear. So, let's imagine a few home invasion situations. You hear a thud downstairs. You rush down, weapon of choice in hand. You encounter a man with a gun. Unless you have a habit of be...
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