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In other words yes the dogs had charged him but they stopped when they got close to him. That's when he shot him, I'll bet, when they had stopped short of him as most dogs do.

Nowhere does the article say that the dogs stopped short. It only says that he shot one dog when it was about a foot away from him. Where did you get the idea that these dogs stopped short?

In fact, the article specifically says the exact opposite of what you're claiming happened:

Gross said he was across the street and the two dogs came charging towards him. He said he yelled for the dogs to get back, but they kept coming. Fearing for his safety, Gross told deputies he reached into his fanny pack and withdrew a .22 caliber pistol and fired one shot killing one of the dogs; the second dog fled.

Deputies met with the owner Michael Bustamante, 28, who confirmed he let “Astro” a 2½ year old 65-pound boxer, and “Libby” a 4-year old 60 pound boxer, outside without leashes to “do their business in the yard.” Bustamante, who was visibly upset, said his dogs often wandered from the yard but were friendly and would never attack or hurt anyone. Deputies talked to a witness who said he saw the dogs charging across the street towards the man and saw him pull out a gun and shoot at the dogs that were barking and charging at him. The dog (Astro) was about a foot away from where Gross was standing when shot.

Naturally, we should ignore the eyewitness who says the dogs where barking and charging at Gross and believe the irresponsible dog owner who lets his dogs out unleashed and unsupervised.

Bottom line is that if you don't want your dogs to get shot, keep them under control at all times. It's really as simple as that.

So then 63 year old Quick Draw McGraw pulls off a miraculous shot at a moving target??? after waiting, mind you, until after he gives the dogs fair warning to stop??? and after that as the dogs are still not listening to his command and still charging at him full speed, he reaches dexterously into his zipped up fanny pack, not his holster, mind you, but his fanny pack and pulls out his pistol and with one shot at the moving target just happens to get lucky????

Sorry but those of us here who know dogs and guns know better.

This was a safe middle class neighborhood where the man walked everyday and Quickdraw knew the exact address of the house where the dogs came from. It's not like he was out in the wilderness somewhere and this was a pack of hungry wild dogs.

Did Quickdraw have any injuries from the second dog??? No??? Why not??? What was the other dog doing while he was shooting his roommate -- reading him his rights???

Those who have dogs and watched dogs and who have been on this planet long enough as this guy has know exactly what these dogs did. They charged and stopped short and barked as some dogs do at strangers who look suspicious to them.

Unless he is Roy Rogers he couldn't have hit a moving target with one shot and if you lived in that neighborhood unless he was Roy Rogers you wouldn't want him taking that shot -- and risk missing and hitting something or someone else.

And if he wasn't still charging at him at the time, but a foot in front of him barking, then he had no cause to shoot him.

If you have spent 63 years on this planet and can't handle a situation like this without pulling a gun and discharging it then put your fanny pack away and stay home.