[familyop]

" "We take offense to people who shoot and kill dogs who aren’t threatening anyone."

I don't care that you "take offense" or want to argue the subtleties of what is or isn't "threatening." Don't try bringing a pit bull to my place, unless you want it dead.

[Age of Reason]

Now, I did say “it should be legal” to shoot any dog off a leash on your property or on public property, at your discretion.

Now, as a matter of fact, I like dogs.

So even if a pit bull did wander onto my property—even into my house, I would not shoot it unless I had no choice (and no choice includes taking no chances). Heck, even if I hated animals, I wouldn’t want to spoil the carpet unless absolutely necessary.

But if I could not peacefully control the dog, then I would like to have the legal right to shoot it just for being off a leash and on my property or on public property.

Further, if this dog had a history of being off the leash, and I judge it to be big enough to do serious harm some day, then backed by a law allowing me to shoot it on my property at my discretion, I should be legally alloed to do so.

WITHOUT later having to get involved with legal proceedings to prove a life was in danger.

[Darnright]

>I don’t care that you “take offense”<

“We”, as in “the state”. Go ahead, shoot a dog without cause in Virginia. Get convicted of a felony.