Massachusetts Dog Attack Shows need for Home Carry

Gun Watch ^ | 11 January, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

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A father in Massachusetts was horrified when the family pet pit bull attacked his one year old daughter. He initially retrieved a pistol to shoot the dog, but the pistol was unloaded.  Firearms stored in the home are required to be locked up in Massachusetts. From boston.com:

The Boston Herald reports that according to Falmouth police the child was playing in the kitchen Sunday morning when the family pit-bull terrier attacked her, biting her in the face causing major trauma.

The father tried to pull the dog off but couldn’t.

Police said the father got a pistol from a nearby room, but realized it wasn’t loaded.

He then grabbed a knife and started stabbing the dog, which was fatally injured.

The Massachusetts law is claimed to be constitutional, because you can carry the firearm on your person or under your control. If it is in one of those conditions, you are not violating the law. If a minor has access to the firearm , it is another violation of Massachusetts law.

Fortunately, the father was able to access a kitchen knife and kill the dog, stopping the attack. The one year old was taken to the hospital.

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[AlaskaErik]

Looks about the size of my garage.

[Sans-Culotte]

Here in Texas, my gun is always in my pocket holster. I even have it in my pocket when I wear pajamas.

[libstripper]

If I lived in MA with the toys I own and how and where I store them, I’d be a multiple felon.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Amendment 4:

...secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects...

[LeonardFMason]

“He couldn’t get dog off girl”

Who’s buying this?

Even without a gun I would crush the dogs spine with a chair or something. I would twist a back leg till it snapped. I would gouge its eyeballs out.

[Vinnie]

Guess the father taught the dog to be mean. /s
Pit bulls will be pit bulls, can’t change breeding.

[libertylover]

"Firearms stored in the home are required to be locked up in Massachusetts."

That's a law I wouldn't obey.

That law is completely unconstitutional!

[HotHunt]

The loaded firearm was not needed until it was.

And therein lies the problem with these gun control/gun "safety" fanatics.

A weapon needs to be ready to use when it is necessary. Not when some liberal legislature thinks it needs to be.

[left that other site]

Knowing Massachusetts, the next step would not be relaxing their laws about firearms.

It would be banning DOGS.

[nobamanomore]

I had to stop to count, I think there are four loaded firearms in my home at the moment, a Glock 30 45 ACP, an AKM with 30 7.62x39 and one up the pipe, an AR15 5.56, same situation, and my 6.5 Creedmoor that I’ve been hunting with, the mag is loaded. Had to go look, there are also four 30 rounders for the AKM, four 30’s 5.56, and two 10 round mags of .45 loaded as well. And a Malinois in the mud room!

[Delta 21]

Guns aint no good without bullets in them!

[gundog]

Not intimately familiar with the breed, are you? Mine would grab a porcupine, shake it until the skin came off, and go back for another hunk. All that because he got 3 quills in the end of his nose, once. He was cool with kittens, chickens, whatever, but simply hated porcupines. Pain is meaningless to them when they attack.

[LeonardFMason]

A dog wouldn’t need to “feel pain” of shattered spine or a knife in its heart to be debilitated by it. Give me a fungo bat with a few nails hammered in the end and I am pretty sure I could crush the skull or shatter the spine of this breed. Especially if energized by the adrenaline of saving my one year daughter.

[gundog]

Good luck not hitting the kid if you go for a headshot. A deer can run a hundred yards with a heart exploded by a bullet. Odds are, this dog could have been verbally removed. But I suspect it was one of those puppies given away at 5 weeks, to a person that had no business owning it, one year old kid, or not. Bad combination. The Staffordshire Terrier of England is known as the Nanny Dog. Great with kids. Not generally bred and raised by a**holes, though.

[WP Lonestar]

Stupid law. In Texas, I carry locked and cocked in my waistband sitting at home all the time.

[Red in Blue PA]

Gun owners in MA must act like Barney Fife.

Unconstitutional.

[Red in Blue PA]

I have a gun ready to go in every room of the house.

Even in the shower.