Debate about Gun Control

[Eric the Green]

(10-23-2017, 09:16 AM)noway2 Wrote:

(10-22-2017, 01:17 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It's not a particularly large dog, but it might be just above us in the food chain. Swift, strong, agile, powerful, cunning, with keen senses, sharp claws and teeth, and a fearsome bite. This cousin of tigers can overpower a man twice the dog's mass.  It can detect an intruder before the intruder knows that the dog is there -- unless the dog gives off some loud barks that cause people to retreat in instinctive fear. If you don't retreat you will be knocked down and kept down. At the least you will get a barrage of ferocious barking while the predator shows fangs suitable for doing great harm to your neck. It might be a loving, trustworthy pet, but a burglar meets the diametric opposite of a loving companion. A man's home is his castle -- and his dog's jungle.

And for all it's advantages, it is easily dealt with via OC spray and mace.  That nose that is 10,000 times more sensitive than that of a human is going to be very susceptible to pain inducing olfactory agents.

The same applies to most intruders. Besides dogs, there are many alternatives available for protection besides guns.