CNN Video report of gunfire saving joggers from dog attack

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There was a special on the animal planet channel called (The Uprising) that said that a lot of people are being killed by dog attacks. My brother called me about two weeks ago and told me that he had hit a dog that had ran between him and the vehicle in front of him. He turned around and went back to remove the dog from the road and to tell the owner that it was unavoidable. While he was walking to the dead dog four pit bulls ran out and dragged the dog off and began eating it. He said that one dog was starring at him hard so he got back in the car and left but he did call the police and reported what happened. The TV show said that it is dangerous to go out of your house.
 
Wow, that's crazy...and scary as well. I've heard about these problems but haven't had any direct experience or heard about problems like this around where I live. As far as I know feral dogs aren't a problem around here. (Montana)
 
It's not dangerous to go out of my house. And I have encountered pit bulls. I live in the woods on my own farm, and people drop off unwanted dogs. We had a pack of pit bulls terrorizing the area -- my neighbor is a cabinet maker, with a shot about 50 yards from his house. One day he was leaving the shop to have lunch in the house, and the pit bulls wouldn't let him out.

He called me after the dogs left. He and his wife were driving down the common road we share, and the pit bulls actually challenged his truck! They were standing in the middle of the road blocking it.

I came up with a rifle, and one started straight for me. I dropped that one, and my neighbor dropped another with a .357. We dragged the carcasses back in the woods and left them there.

I walk out to the mail box every day (a mile and a half round trip.) I carry my Colt New Service in .45 Colt -- but haven't been challenged by a dog since that day.
 
That show that I mentioned said that a women was killed when she went walking her husband took the car looking for her, he saw her and got out the car and the dogs killed him. The police went to the scene and didn't know what had happened so one walked down the road looking for evidence and the pack of dogs came after him. He fired a shot an they left. They said they caught the dogs.
 
"Makes you think."

That's a great closing quote from the CNN piece. Glad Americans are seeing a positive position on firearms use and of a gunowner ("He's a hero").
 
Description reads "gun-wielding neighbor" as if to imply he's some lunatic running around with a gun. Good on him though.
 
Description reads "gun-wielding neighbor" as if to imply he's some lunatic running around with a gun. Good on him though.
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I don't know, that seems pretty neutral to me.
 
several neighbors in my area, are carring guns and bats when they walk. One stinking neighbor has a pit that she like to turn loose. Cops can;t do anything unless dog is off her property.
 
This was reported on CNN with a story in California. We're making progress!
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That's what I was thinking. It's such a hassle to get the guns over there and only then if they are approved models. Pack mentality is a very dangerous thing. Accuracy is king when you are shooting at a smaller object attacking a bigger object. That is a very dangerous shot, and it really would take a hero and a marksman to do that without hitting the jogger too.
 
My neighbors pit bulls kept breaking loose from their chains and coming over to our property. They tore through a chain link pen one night and killed a crippled wild turkey we were raising. I took them home that night before I realized the turkey had been killed. Had a discussion with my neighbor the next morning. The next time they got loose I had just finished walking my beloved old dog. My wife had taken them back home before I got back to the house with my dog. The thought of running into them with my old dog in tow with nothing to protect her and then myself with led to me buying my first pistol (added several since then). The pit bulls have since been picked up by the animal control officer and did not return to my neighbors. I still carry one of my pistols when I walk by myself or with my beloved dog, my original "labhound".
 
We had some dog problems here outside of town. Key word (had). some were pitbulls. People liked to drop off there unwanted animals on the gravel road. It was a fight and a struggle, law didn't do squat, we did some research and talked to the county attorney. We shot the dogs, well within they laws if Iowa and our county. Law tried to cause us problems over it(several times), but couldn't touch it. The law (sheriff) didn't want to do anything, but tried to go after us when we did. It was kind of funny watching them try to figure out what to charge us with after they tried to arrest us for protecting ourselves and neighbors, they were just harrassing us for doing the duty they are required by law to do (as it is written in Iowa law), and they just failed to (refused) to do there duty. The county attorney reemed them hard over it too.
 
There was a special on the animal planet channel called (The Uprising)
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I watched that-pretty interesting-police dashcam footage of mountain lions roaming neighborhoods at night, and a guy who has trapped 400 coyotes in Chicago area-think he estimates there are around 2,000 in the area he's working?
 
Subsonic .22 longs fired from long guns are pretty darn quiet. Just sayin'.

I mean, if a known "bad dog" (or dogs) is roaming around, maybe do something proactive, rather than wait for a child to be mauled or worse. Small comfort that the bad dog will be put down after a child's life is ruined or ended in a wild canine attack.
 
Subsonic .22 longs fired from long guns are pretty darn quiet. Just sayin'.
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uh.. if you're within .22CB range of a dangerous dog, you're nuts. Especially if you're planning on provoking the animal(s)
 
Good discussion. Rogue dogs evidently are a serious problem in some parts of the country. A measured and rational response to problem dogs by gun owners shows the positive side of gun ownership.

Smhbbag1 stated it best "This was reported on CNN with a story in California. We're making progress!" A MSM news source reports from a very restrictive state a positive piece on firearms ownership is a very good thing for our cause and the reason I brought this up.
 
This was reported on CNN with a story in California. We're making progress!
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Shocking huh? Now if we can elect a few fiscally responsible, pro-gun candidates we may just have some hope in this broken state.
 
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