Posted on 05/30/2013 6:16:41 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
Pit Bull owners should get the death penalty when their mutt kills.
where were the cops who shoot those bad a$$ golden retrievers for bringing the ball to them?
You know the recent nature of pitbulls by what some people have done to them. Do yourself a favor and research the history of the breed, there was a time in this country when pits where the family dog of choice.
I don’t own Pits, but have almost daily contact with many Pits at a dog park I frequent with my Mastador and 99.9% of them are sweet loving animals and most are even submissive with other dogs. And by the way I have yet to meet a aggressive Rotty at the dog park either, so is it the breed or the breeder? I still say any breed is only as aggressive and vicious as the breeder and owner make it. In the 70’s it was Doby’s and Rotty’s now it’s the Pits, but the truth is itt has always beenthe people.
You know the recent nature of pitbulls by what some people have done to them. Do yourself a favor and research the history of the breed, there was a time in this country when pits where the family dog of choice.
A good dog protects its family.
A bad dog ravages a threat.
It is a matter of perspective.
There is no difference between the two except love.
Our healer was in heat a few years back and a pit jumped our fence. My husband was home and tried to run the pit off. He picked up a lawn implement, an edger I think.
In retelling the story, he told about putting the edger down and just opening the gate, yelling at the dog to leave. He told me that when fighting the animal with this implement he saw something in the animals eyes.
It was fear.
The animal was fighting a threat to its own life.
My husband saw no legitimate defense other than our own animals “virtue”. It was not a bad dog, it was a dog acting on instinct.
Yes, I fear put bulls - because I respect them.
Murder, as opposed to other charges where death was caused (manslaughter, negligence, etc), requires an element of intent. A prosecutor risks losing the case entirely by over-charging the crime, particularly when he has a lack of facts or supporting evidence. This is exactly how OJ and Casey Anthony "got away with it".
I guess FR isn't what it once was. You idiots cannot seem to have a rational thought without injecting emotionalism at every turn. Moronic.
Sorry, skippy. Second Degree murder at the least. The lethal danger was foreseeable and the results almost certain, yet the clueless owner did not take precautions proportional to the threat.
Stupidity is not a defense.
Update...
The dogs' owner, perhaps a drug dealer, HAS been charged with murder.
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