10-19-2022, 08:32 PM
As a defender I would rather trust a dog (it rouses easily and has keen senses in darkness) than myself with a firearm. Dogs are unlikely to attack the wrong person, and a burglar has no chance of turning a dog against its owner.
The solution to a burglar once in your house is to get out of the house. Outside? A barking dog is a powerful deterrent because it is itself a fearsome predator. Even small dogs have mauled burglars badly, and there isn't much worth taking that is worth dog bites and scratches.
Another fact: a huge portion of suicides are by firearm, usually in depression. Dogs are good at cheering people up. They will compel people to do things that give meaning to life -- like taking the dog out for a walk. The dog wants you to survive- a firearm has no conscience, feelings, or enlightened self-interest as do most dogs.
The solution to a burglar once in your house is to get out of the house. Outside? A barking dog is a powerful deterrent because it is itself a fearsome predator. Even small dogs have mauled burglars badly, and there isn't much worth taking that is worth dog bites and scratches.
Another fact: a huge portion of suicides are by firearm, usually in depression. Dogs are good at cheering people up. They will compel people to do things that give meaning to life -- like taking the dog out for a walk. The dog wants you to survive- a firearm has no conscience, feelings, or enlightened self-interest as do most dogs.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.