Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Why I carry a handgun for protection, Vol. 21

So that if my spouse and I are attacked by a pack of wild dogs while out for a leisurely walk, I will be able to defend us from being torn to pieces, which is exactly what happened to elderly retired professor Lothar Schweder and his wife Sherry in rural Georgia the other day:

"Authorities have rounded up about 11 dogs suspected in the rare attack and returned to the area Tuesday to find four more spotted by a deputy. The dogs were being held by animal control officials while authorities decide what to do with them, said Jim Fullington, special agent for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation."

Here's an idea, guys - put them down posthaste. What, the GBI thinks that these mutts can somehow be rehabilitated? Somehow I doubt these dogs are going to rate very highly on the adoption list.

"'You are more likely to killed by a bolt of lightening [sic] than by a dog,' said Adam Goldfarb, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States "'It's one in millions.'"

Maybe so, Mr. Goldfarb (although your specific lightning analogy is debatable), but the chance of such an attack is 100% when it happens to you personally, so if you don't mind I'll just go ahead and prepare to defend myself with deadly force in such a situation, in order to avoid the Schweders' sad and gruesome fate.

After all, I don't leave my house every morning expecting to be in an auto accident, but I still buckle up every time.

3 comments:

Andrew said...

Remember that the HSUS is not the good organization that runs animal shelters -- although they deliberately created, maintain and profit greatly from that confusion -- but an organization that raises a ton of money for "programs that seek to economically cripple meat and dairy producers; eliminate the use of animals in biomedical research labs; phase out pet breeding, zoos, and circus animal acts; and demonize hunters as crazed lunatics."

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Bike Bubba said...

If being hung like a horse were a protection against crime, explain why horses get eaten by wolves anyways.

I think we have a winner for dumbest comment of the year, Douglas!