You’re the first person I’ve posted with who has a strategy together. Good plan. I watch that video on youtube where we see the dog running from far away and we watch him cross the intersection and we watch him run fast up to a child walking with her grandmother and then you watch him attack the child viciously and I imagine if that’s what was really happening in other pit shooting stories when people say “my dog was wagging its tail when it ran up to that person who shot him! He never hurt the person and the person shot him!” I’ve seen videos of pits running up to someone to attack them, all the while wagging their tail. Are you supposed to let them open your femoral artery to prove their intent before you try to defend yourself because stopping the dog before it slashes you open is “unfair.”
buy a metal bat , carry it in your car , carry a softball along with it . That demonstrates the intent to ‘play ball’ not carry a weapon ....