TRO's, Dogs, and Gun Possession

[migoi]

I ran across this story: http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/01/dog.order.ap/index.html, which concerns a man ordered to stay 100 yards from a dog he had been convicted of beating. Essentially, this person has been given a TRO to stay away from the dog.

In Hawaii, anyone on the receiving end of a TRO has to relinquish all their firearms and ammunition for the duration and will have to do the whole permit to acquire thing all over again when the TRO is removed.

Would it apply in this case? Not that I have ANY sympathy for anyone that would beat a dog.

migoi

 

[1911Tuner]

Dogs

Can't say, since I don't know Hawiian law and have never heard that beating a dog can cause a problem with gun possession in any other state.

That said...I think that anyone would beat a dog that wasn't attacking or posing an active threat should be horse-whipped. If a man will beat a dog
like that without good cause, he'll beat a woman or a child. If he beat the dog badly enough to warrant a court order to keep a 100-yard distance, it must have been a pretty bad beating, I couldn't see a judge issuing such a decree if the man had been defending himself from a vicious dog.

More details are needed, though.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

my apologies

if this one was discussed before but we had a "hero" in winchester virginia that went to hit his wifes 30 pound dog with the butt of his loaded rifle. gun discharged right between his eyes. poetic justice

 

[1911Tuner]

Justice

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>we had a "hero" in winchester virginia that went to hit his wifes 30 pound dog with the butt of his loaded rifle. gun discharged right between his eyes.<
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Dog probably snuck off thinkin' that he'd get blamed for the whole thing...

 

[ORAG]

Beat or Shoot a dog

My father-in law had a grand daughter's dog tied up in his yard. A neighborhood dog (Chow/Mastiff mix) came over and tried to kill it. Dad ran over and got bit and knocked down for his effort. He had to take a 2X4 to the attacking dog to get it away from the smaller dog. Would he have been better off to shoot it? BTW, he has spent many hundreds of dollars and many days getting therapy for the hip hurt in the knock down. The neighbor's insurance company has paid some but not all of the cost and nothing for the aggrivation/injury. Not every situation calls for a cool head and a "don't hit" solution. He now carried a CCW in Idaho and that is one dead dog if he ever shows up again.