Get bent. I am old enough now that the threat of prison doesn’t bother me, been there done that. Here in commifornia I would die of natural causes before I would get the needle. Any body hurts or kills one of my family members and that includes my dogs is going to get justice in kind. I don’t care if it’s a cop a crook or a priest. They had better live every moment like it’s their last because I will come and they will die! My dogs are better people than 99.99% of the scumbag so called human beings in this world.
I think you all misunderstand. I, too, am a dog owner, and I love my dogs. But this is an issue of the police and the courts.
If some sadistic teenage boy kills your dog in your front yard, and you see him as he is leaving and gun him down, you will be sent to prison for many years, probably more than the entire lifespan of your dog from puppy to had it lived to old age.
Yes, your pain and anguish will be terrible, but the police and the courts will not care. Your family will be without you for many years, and if you are their breadwinner, they will be destitute.
And even if the police arrest the teenager, he would likely only get a fine and time served, or something equally petty, for inflicting such terrible hurt on you and your family.
If a policeman raids your home, with or today, even without a warrant, or even if they are raiding the wrong house, and as they are terrifying your family, one of them guns down your friendly, loving dog, there is not a thing you can do about it. If you attack the officer, he will beat and maybe even kill you, or the other officers will. And if you successfully kill him, you will get life in prison or the state may decide to execute you.
Because he killed your dog. And they will not care at all about your dog. Or the pain inflicted on you and your family by its loss.
Because, in the opinion of the police, the law, and the courts, “it is just a dog”.