A 5-year-old’s birthday party took a grisly turn on Saturday after her family’s dog escaped from the yard and was shot by an armed pedestrian.
Emily Martinez recalls hearing a gunshot after her dog Clifford jumped a fence during her daughter’s party, The Denver Post reported. The family poured into the street and found a stranger, apparently walking his own dog, standing over the family pet, still brandishing a gun.
According to neighbors and guests at the party, the man who shot the dog was shouting that he was within his rights.
“I have a concealed weapon license,” they recall him saying.
The animal was shot twice in the neck, and died after the family rushed him to a veterinarian.
Martinez also told the Post that the man pointed the gun at several people as they gathered around the fallen animal. In response, Martinez’s husband ran inside to get his own gun, but by the time he returned to the scene the shooter was gone.
Martinez’s husband said the man had taken walks by their house for several months and had previously complained about the dog’s barking.
Within his rights it would seem. I’ve had strange dogs attack my dog while walking on public property, and even in my own yard. However this guy was obviously “itching” to prove his manhood. No reason to avoid walking anywhere he wants while packin’
Pepper spray would have been the better deterrent. But obviously the guy has a small penis.
Where in the article does it say that the man and/or his own dog were being “attacked”? Only cowards and madmen and fools shoot dogs as a first response.
Sit. Lie down. Roll over. Stand your ground.
Good doggy.
People who feel the need to carry a gun are constantly subconsciously looking for situations that will validate their belief that they need to carry a gun and are going to run every slightly out of the ordinary thing that happens to them through that filter.
Necessarily, these are people who conflate the right to own and carry a gun with a right to use it any time they feel the slightest bit threatened or scared or startled. And, of course, the worst of them are going to be the ones who conflate the right to own and carry a gun with the right to use it any time a situation arises where they think they can plausibly contend that they felt threatened, scared or startled when, in fact, what they were really feeling was stoked that they finally got to shoot something.
Because if a sane person in a sane country was concerned about a house with a dog that lost it over the sight of him walking his own dogs, he’d rethink his route. But this is Wayne LaPierre’s America. We’re just allowed to live here. Until someone decides we’re a threat and shoots us, anyway. And in Wayne LaPierre’s America, the whole point of carrying a gun is so you don’t have to do things like change the route you use to walk your dog because you have a by-god right to walk in that place and the penalty for infringing your rights is death.