HarryWhisman
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Mike Veitch:
Of course. Sorry Mike, you're gonna have to slow down a little. I'm just a gun slingin moron wanna be.:comeandge
Pit bull coming at me, owner screaming "Vicious NO"
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Of course. Sorry Mike, you're gonna have to slow down a little. I'm just a gun slingin moron wanna be.:comeandge
Aha! now we are on the same page....HarryWhisman:
Nice one!
HarryWhisman
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Feel the love.Tamas:
You should be ashamed of yourself.Tamas:
Sounded a little bashy to me.Tamas:
If my sister was my brother then....Tamas:
I knew you were a good guy.Tamas:
Darnold9999
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Treading very carefully here.
Does not surprise me that the crime rate went down when carrying a concealed gun became legal. You would expect that. Who is going to start a fight if your opponant might be carrying a gun. At least that is the argument and it by and large holds water as shown by the statistics.
However the cost is significant. The same statistics show that in places where hand guns are easily available more people are killed than in similar places where they are not.
Not going to argue with your choices, just pointing out that there is a cost that you did not mention to that choice.
Does not surprise me that the crime rate went down when carrying a concealed gun became legal. You would expect that. Who is going to start a fight if your opponant might be carrying a gun. At least that is the argument and it by and large holds water as shown by the statistics.
However the cost is significant. The same statistics show that in places where hand guns are easily available more people are killed than in similar places where they are not.
Not going to argue with your choices, just pointing out that there is a cost that you did not mention to that choice.
Doc Intrepid:Ber,
For this I find that large caliber handguns are remarkably effective tools.A 4" stainless steel Smith & Wesson revolver in .357 magnum, for example, may be stored next to your dog leash with relative ease, and tucked into your belt with minimum fuss. I understand that pit bulls require significant amounts of pursuasion before they'll cease attacking, but six rounds of .357 should at least alter the odds in your favor! Doc's tip of the week!
Doc
My Ruger SP101 only holds five, but it'll do the job.
Peter_C
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Nothing like pictures of Pitbull attacks!
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Here is the story. This was taken from another thread about Pits.
Sorry I'm a little late to jump into this discussion, but I have not been able to get to my computer because I am recovering from being mauled by a pit bull while on holiday in Mexico.
It got a hold of my calf and pulled and twisted. By grabbing it at the back of the mouth and pressing into its jaw - while punching its block head with my other hand - I was able to get it to release its grip. My calf muscle is shredded and I have deep wounds on the front and back of my leg. The nerve damage is quite painful. I had to be rushed to a hospital and operated on immediately. Two weeks later, I am still in a wheelchair.
All this talk of them being nice unless someone asks for it upsets me because that is BLAMING THE VICTIM. Was I asking for it when I was walking down the (middle of) the street with my 9-year-old son?
Do I blame the dog? YES. Do I blame the owner? HELL YES.
View attachment 30716
Here is the story. This was taken from another thread about Pits.
Sorry I'm a little late to jump into this discussion, but I have not been able to get to my computer because I am recovering from being mauled by a pit bull while on holiday in Mexico.
It got a hold of my calf and pulled and twisted. By grabbing it at the back of the mouth and pressing into its jaw - while punching its block head with my other hand - I was able to get it to release its grip. My calf muscle is shredded and I have deep wounds on the front and back of my leg. The nerve damage is quite painful. I had to be rushed to a hospital and operated on immediately. Two weeks later, I am still in a wheelchair.
All this talk of them being nice unless someone asks for it upsets me because that is BLAMING THE VICTIM. Was I asking for it when I was walking down the (middle of) the street with my 9-year-old son?
Do I blame the dog? YES. Do I blame the owner? HELL YES.
Damn that looks nasty!!!
Sorry to hear about that....
Sorry to hear about that....
Darnold9999
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Peter, that looks awful, hope you heal well, glad to hear it was not worse - it could easily have been.
I have read this entire thread and nowhere does anyone blame the victim, or suggest that any dog is nice until someone "asks for it".
I read two threads, those who think pit bulls are dangerous and should be avoided and those who think some owners create dangerous dogs and breed is pretty much irrelevant.
I suspect both would totally agree with you that the dog that bit you should be put down unless you provoked it, (and by provoked it I do NOT mean just walked by or came into its yard, I mean were tormenting it to the point where it responded appropriately or were actively harming its master). I suspect that both would also agree that the owner is responsible and would hope that there was a way that you could extract justice. As it happened in Mexico my guess is that there is little you can do. Which would really pi** me off.
I have read this entire thread and nowhere does anyone blame the victim, or suggest that any dog is nice until someone "asks for it".
I read two threads, those who think pit bulls are dangerous and should be avoided and those who think some owners create dangerous dogs and breed is pretty much irrelevant.
I suspect both would totally agree with you that the dog that bit you should be put down unless you provoked it, (and by provoked it I do NOT mean just walked by or came into its yard, I mean were tormenting it to the point where it responded appropriately or were actively harming its master). I suspect that both would also agree that the owner is responsible and would hope that there was a way that you could extract justice. As it happened in Mexico my guess is that there is little you can do. Which would really pi** me off.
Peter_C
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This was not my leg but someone from another website that posted up. We wound up having a giant discussion, just like this one. Except we had a few Pitbull owners defending them.Peter_C:
Darnold9999
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oops - wondered as soon as I posted, but too late.
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