Posted on 05/11/2014 8:02:08 AM PDT by csvset
Why do so many cops think every dog that walks towards them wants to kill them?
I mean, I don’t think every strange dog that walks towards me wants me dead. I like to believe I can tell if a dog is being aggressive or just checking me out. Do they believe dogs have a natural instinct to kill people dressed in police uniforms?
It’s this shoulder shrugging attitude - that’s the way it is bro, bury your dog and get over it - more than anything else that is allowing this republic to slip away.
Did police always shoot dogs like this? What gives? It seems every week I am reading another headline about a cop shooting a dog.
Not that I know of. I will say with no reservation that during the 60’s 70’s in Suffolk Cty NY a cop pulling his gun and discharging it in a neighborhood would have had to have one hell of a good reason for doing so. His boss would have been the least of his problems but at that his boss would probably would have taken his head off.
Seems like there are more and more reports of LEOs shooting dogs. Question is, why? Are dogs now a far greater threat? Where are all the reports of LEOs being attacked and bitten/mauled? Surely something is driving this new behavior by LEOs.
Do postal carriers shoot unleashed dogs on the spot?
Some dogs do not need to be leashed.
That's easily the most vile insult posted to me in my fifteen years on Free Republic. As for dogs; most of those 'off the leash' AREN'T 'well-trained', or they wouldn't have been on my property and in my garden in the first place.
Mail carriers use as a spray of some sort, I believe it’s a pepper spray. Years ago, I saw a neighbors dog get sprayed with it. Whatever it was, the dog forgot about the mail carrier and was rolling on the ground.
I say it's doctrine, which is quickly universalized. They shoot people too, if you'll notice. That's the new rule - comply or be shot.
It’s a good thing that the guy’s kid wasn’t jaywalking in the area. A slug from a .45 certainly would have solved that problem as well.
How does one identify dogs that do not need to be leashed?
Tell me, if a dog that does not need to be leashed and is not leashed runs up to a cop to lick the cop lovingly on the face, and the cop shoots the dog to death, did the dog who doesn’t need to be leashed needed to be leashed?
Really? That's the Statutory penalty? Really? Can you cite that statute or is the law just made up on the fly? If that Statute can be modified at will, what others can? All of them or just certain ones?
Those are the ones that ignore a cat when one crosses its path...never seen an unleashed dog like that, but I am told they are out there.
Tell me, did the owner’s walking of his dog off leash facilitate the circumstances that led to his dog’s death?
The answer is yes.
Tell me, if that same person had been walking with his child and let his child jaywalk and the child got hit and killed by a car, did the parent’s irresponsibility facilitate the circumstances that led to his child’s death?
The answer is yes.
If you are responsible for something, i.e. a dog, or someone, i.e. your child, then you are responsible.
Let’s hope you are smart enough and mature enough to shoulder that responsibility, or things could turn out badly, couldn’t they?
That is all there is to it.
I changed a few tires for elderly couples over the years...didn’t make it worse did I? :)
The moral to the story is DON'T CALL THE POLICE!
Sometime shootings are justified, if you’re stupid enough to walk an aggressive dog up to a cop unrestrained and it goes after him then that dog being put in harms way was your fault, not the cop.
Leash it when out of your own fenced yard and this wouldn’t happen.
*facepalm*
I’ve had countless dogs run up to me to me greet me, I didn’t shoot one of them (overseas on tour).
Only dog I shot was one needing to be put down, and the vet was way overpriced.
double *facepalm*
You very well could be on the wrong site.
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