Bipartisan Senate group proposes ‘no fly, no buy’ gun measure

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(05-02-2018, 05:47 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Dogs don't have to be 'professionally trained' to be deterrents. A crook has to be 'professionally trained' to be able to confront every dog that he might encounter. The trained attack dog is as much a master of stealth as a leopard, and in a confrontation with a criminal it is almost as effective. Almost -- because a criminal has everything to lose in the encounter, but unlike an encounter with a leopard the crook is likely to survive. If one is a rapist looking for a victim, a woman with a canine companion is a non-target.  

Dogs are not innocuous wimps. They are predators and excellent defenders. That is the wolf heritage. They are simply the best-behaved of large animals capable of killing and eating people.  Dogs are like humans in being able to defend themselves or loved ones (the dog becomes a family member, and a human family has much the same structure as a wolf pack) even if untrained for such a role.

I lived in a high-crime area in college -- but from my understanding, crooks left us college students alone. Why? Because we knew how to carry car keys. We also had heavy college textbooks that made excellent blunt-force weapons.  We also went in groups. We were excellent witnesses for the prosecution in the event of a crime. We may have been comparatively liberal, but we were the sorts who reported people looking into parked cars for valuables or car keys.  Our reputations followed us. Crooks picked other victims, especially drunks and dopers, to victimize.

Well, you have a right to choose to have a dog for defense like you seem to prefer and the right choose to have a gun for defense like me and the right to choose to have both them like me too. Thank God, we still live in America. As a general rule, petty crooks don't mess with guys unless they're armed or the guy is obviously inebriated and unable to put up a fight.