Posted on 03/07/2012 10:51:42 AM PST by nickcarraway
LEO’s want to be the only ones to have guns.
Does not make me feel all fuzzy and safe.
Now this officer gets to go to those special meetings and learn the secret handshake.
The part where I completely lost sympathy for Applegate and her dog was when the neighbor said that the dog was often off leash running up to people. Sweet once he got there, but scared the HELL out of people.
Domestic disturbance and the report that someone was stabbed - go into the yard and be approached by a growling pit bull? Sounds like any reasonable person would shoot.
That or pull a “Columbine” (where a small explosion made the LEO’s cower in apathetic and pathetic inaction for hours) and let a potential stabbing victim bleed out while they fetched a dog restrainer or waited for animal control.
I'd shoot too. Owners fault for not keeping dog on leash -sadly, too often experienced from too many irresponsible owners.
Not your typical “cop shoots dog” story.
I blame the idiot owners for ALL of this.
They can’t use those tazer things or pepper spray on dogs?
Next time my wife starts yelling at me I can tell her to keep it down or the cops will show up and murder our dog.
I agree with you. A dog can easily run the distance of two houses in a couple of seconds. You don’t have the time to decide if he’s a nice pitbull or not a nice pitbull.
I don’t have a problem in this situation. If the dog was in the backyard and tied up or if the dog was of a breed that isn’t known for attacking and biting people, then I would have a problem.
“caretaker”? How ‘bout “owner”? Oh, that’s right - dogs aren’t slaves.../s
This is unfair to the cops at Columbine. They did not go into the building because they were following doctrine, which assumed the situation would turn into a hostage negotiation, and a gunfight would increase casualties.
As it turned out, the doctrine was totally wrong for a situation where the attackers were just killing people, not taking them hostage. But saying the cops were cowardly is condemning them with the benefit of hindsight.
They were fortunate they had a dog for the police to shoot. The officer did not have to shoot the owners.
That would deprive the officer of live action practice.
Only a douche bag or a dog fighter would tie up a dog confined in their own yard.
I’m not shocked any longer. I’ll start paying attention to these stories again when the LEO’s are blasting family pets with their new drones.
Apparently rigging a cherrybomb to a door is sufficient to cut the legs out from under a “hot entry” by the Police - as they patiently wait for a bomb squad - while people were being killed.
That is not so much hindsight criticism of the Police as it is ridiculing them being outsmarted emasculated and rendered powerless by two psycho High Schoolers and a small pipe bomb.
Then let us not forget the brave brave officers at Virginia Tech - cowering behind trees as students stood out in the open recording with cell phones. The students with cell phones were displaying more bravery ‘under fire’ than the LEO’s hired to defend them.
One of my favorite lines in Battlestar Galactica is when Apollo advises the President that they have been boarded by Cylons and to ... ‘keep moving, stay away from main corridors, and head away from gunfire.’. The President agreed and was about to turn away when she grew concerned “What about you?” she asked. With a grin he replied “We are headed TOWARDS the gunfire.”.
That is what those charged with protecting the citizenry should do - head towards the gunfire.
My point being that if there was a report of a stabbing - the officers were obliged to go through a bit of danger (a yard with a pit bull) to see if there was in fact a citizen bleeding to death; rather than retreating to wait for animal control - much as the Police at Columbine thought they should wait for the bomb squad.
I think you understand what I’m saying here, without having to spell it out.
I was differentiating between a dog that is obviously no danger to the officers and a dog that was.
And no, with doggy doors, some dogs would be free to come and go from house to backyard, so it really wasn’t that silly of a point, despite your efforts to try and make it so.
Many backyards aren’t fenced: mine for instance.
I do agree that anyone who both fences in AND ties their dog up either doesn’t know how to train a dog, or has serious control issues. Either one or both of these scenarios lead to a poorly socialized and potentially dangerous creature.
Stupid owners are the ultimate reason for this dog’s death. Pity the poor pitty.
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