Never bring a Scottish terrier named Velvet to a knife fight with a deranged psychopath.
Okay, that was a little too flip, sorry. But there's a serious point here: Since NY refuses to recognize the absolute, God-given right of every human being on earth to carry a weapon to defend himself, it's time to encourage law-abiding people to resort to more indirect means; namely, when people must go out, they should only go out with multiple, large, protective, attack dogs on a leash. Few people will do it. But darn if I don't think it's justified.
That isnt a God given right.