Some people refuse to see the trees because the forest gets in the way.
What bothers me most in reading through this thread is that the number of libertarians (they sure aren’t conservatives) could try to justify the killing of a police officer by a known troublemaker over the use of a stun gun on the fools dogs. Too many posters here have a fanatical hate for cops and they also would give an animal rights idiot a run for their money on crazy ideas of how animals are equal to humans. I don’t agree that people should be cruel to animals, but to say it is justified to kill a human to defend a dog, cat or any animal is just insane. If they kill your dog take them to court and fight it out that way. To think it justifies killing someone then you are a wacko. As most of the posters on here who condone such behavior seem to be a bit unhinged. Their attempts at logic are not amusing, but actually frighting.