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Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure
(05-02-2018, 06:00 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:
(05-01-2018, 06:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Nature is red in blood. The human-canine partnership is effectively one bear, Big Cat, or hyena.

No.  A dog and the possibility of an armed defender potentially reverses the simpler predator - prey relationship.  One analyzes the situation much differently, or at least I would.

Dog + armed defender? That's just short of the crocodile range as an object of fear by most creatures. Man included!

Criminals dread the K-9 unit, as said one correctional officer of convicted offenders. There's no hiding place. Cops compete to be assigned to K-9 units.


(05-01-2018, 06:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The dog that the crook knows about and for which he has a firearm ready is going to lose. But remember that if the crook does not know about the dog, then the advantage goes to the dog. A dog is usually strong enough to overpower a man three times the dog's mass. of the crook is knocked down, then the dog may have effectively separated the crook from his weapons. He will be be defending himself from bites, and not very well. Crooks often act at night, but dogs have better night vision, let alone scent and hearing. The (d)og knows about a crook, all too often, before the crook knows about the dog. Whoever attacks first wins.

A dog that attacks without first giving warning would be rare.  If it does happen, I would expect it only when an trained, equipped and ready handler gives the dog permission.  You just don't expect a dog to know the nuances of a potentially deadly situation.  Instinctively, the dog's part in the relationship is to warn the crook, alert the owner, and thus defend territory.

At least in the suburbs, I would expect the dog to bark.  The usual response is not incompatible with the human owner throwing a shoe.  The normal response is not for the blue representative in the gun debate to stick with Truth and Reality.

For example, the fog is usually an innocent bystander.  ;[/quote]

Typo corrected. The usual dog is likely to bark.. but that is a good deterrent to crime. The trained attack dog is trained to attack like a leopard. If dogs don't know all the nuances of a potentially-dangerous situation, it might know enough. The most obvious is violation of territory or at the least the assumed space of a loved one. Dogs are good at noticing furtive and devious behavior in people -- behavior normally abnormal in human relations. Dogs may be well behaved, but man had better act honorably in their presence.

Sure, no dog is a match for a gun pointed at it, but a solid bite to a wrist can force the crook to drop a weapon, after which the outcome of the encounter is not so obvious. Severe bites and scratches are good cause to try to escape a dangerous and unpredictable animal.
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.


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RE: Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure - by pbrower2a - 05-02-2018, 07:20 AM

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