“His parents, of Rossland, British Columbia, reported a cougar suddenly jumped out of a brushy area onto the boy, who was near his mother on the trail,” said the release. “The mother reportedly fought off the cougar and the parents took the child to Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail.” [More]See? Just fight it off with your hands. And hope that it's not as committed to its goals as you are to yours.
That doesn't mean guns don't have their place, mind you:
[W]ildlife officers must now hunt, and euthanize, the cougar.That place, evidently, is exclusively in the hands of the "Only Ones."
[Via Michael G]