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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is Harmon's fault. Should the guy have had a gun on him? I don't think so, but I also don't live in North Carolina or anywhere that permits concealed carry and wear gun ownership is incredibly common. If I DID live in such a place, I would train myself to assume that anyone I meet, or invite into my home, might have a gun on them, and also comfort with using one. It is simply how it is in much of the South and the West, even if it's not how I choose to live. Knowing that, she scheduled a delivery and then failed to restrain or isolate her dog when the delivery driver arrived. Stupid. We'll probably never know if the dog did anything to provoke being shot. But even if we knew, it will always be subjective. I've been attacked by a dog before, and escaped only because I was able to put a door between me and the dog before he could reach me. It is terrifying. The owner in that case laughed it off and didn't even apologize, just said "oh, he can be protective around strangers." Uh, okay, then don't leave him off leash when you know a stranger will be in your house, you absolute $hitbag of a dog owner. So the dog might have just barked in a friendly way at this guy, but as a total stranger, he has no idea what that means. Maybe the dog bounded up. Could have seemed totally non-threatening to one person but be terrifying to another. If you live in a place where people often carry guns and where the concept of shooting to protect yourself is sort of built into the culture, WHY would you allow your dog to approach a total stranger this way? Stupid stupid stupid. I'm not defending the delivery driver, but this is 100% Harmon's fault. And it's typical behavior of many dog owners who for some reason have no sense of perspective about their dogs and give no though to how their dog or dog's behavior might be perceived or experienced by others. Her dog is dead because she's a bad dog owner.[/quote] In the South, it’s best to expect everyone has a gun on them. It’s so different culturally from up North. Southerners like to shoot/handle threats themselves and don’t even like to call 911 and have “the law” up in their house so neighbors or church folk don’t see or gossip . It’s a very different mindset over there [/quote]
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