Black bears it should be noted are the most aggressive bear(atleast in North America), how many people against hunting them know that they are actually more dangerous than grizzlys?
I have to disagree whole heartedly with this statement. It's good for argument but holds little merrit.
http://www.bear.org/Black/Articles/H...ack_Bears.html
It remains a fact that wild black bears have killed nearly three dozen people across North America this century
Also:
http://www.bearstudy.org/Research/Update_2002-09-21.htm
Standard statistics for each interview:
The baby was the 50th killing by a black bear in the last hundred years across North America.
Most killings were in northern Canada and Alaska where bears have little contact with people. Only two, including this one, were in the eastern US where bears and people mingle the most.
There are about 750,000 black bears in North America with less than one killing per year.
According to the Department of Justices in the US and Canada, about one person in 16,000 commits murder each year. For grizzly bears, about one in 50,000 kills someone. For black bears, it is less than one black bear in a million.
For each person killed by a black bear across North America, there are 13 people killed by snakes, 45 by dogs, 120 by bees, 250 by lightning, and 60,000 homicides.
It's unfortunate that black bears get a bum reputation. Grizzly bears are by their nature more agressive and polar bears are the sole mamal of North America that is above the human on the food chain.