Originally Posted By: TWG1572
We had a very similar situation play itself out here a year or so ago. I don't remember all the details anymore, but IIRC a pit bull charged and chased an adjacent property owner into his garage. There was a gun in that garage, and he used it quite effectively. Guess where the public outcry was? It wasn't for the guy getting chased, it was for the "poor" dog who was killed. Evidently the guy had prior incidents with this dog, which is why a gun was in the garage, and had told the dog's owners he wasn't putting up with it any more. That turned into "you intentially shot my dog, and pre-meditated it to boot". When I read the article, I think the police were still deciding if they were getting involved. Not sure what the outcome was.
Bang, bang, bang...its dead. YAY!!! Good for that
terrorized neighbor. No more vicious dog to deal with ever again.
I'm sure the police said to the dog owner,
"It is ALL your fault, for violating the laws regarding dogs.
The reason the dog is dead is because YOU failed to follow the laws"
Who gives a rats bum what "the mindless public" thought?
The ONLY thing that mattered was that the vicious dog was
NOT under the control of its owner, and not only that it was running at large, and it happened NUMEROUS times, and the victim was kind enough to inform the criminal owner that the next time would be the last time. The law finds the owner liable for all damages because they broke it. Why doesn't the idiot public get angry at the vicious dog owner for breaking every law on the books that DEMAND the dog be under the owners control at ALL times, and it can NEVER run at large.
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The point is, there are a lot of odd people in this world, and if you go down the path you've chosen you need to think of the downstream implications.
These people can be as odd as they want as long as it doesn't
threaten, impinge, or violate the laws governing them. When that
"oddball" starts threatening me in any way which violates the laws on the books it ends then and there. These self centered
jerks need to take note of that and be prepared for the consequences.