Dog Attack Stopped By Armed Bystander

By Tom Knighton

When the left tries to count defensive gun uses, they love to look at the number of times an armed citizen kills a bad guy. There are a lot of reasons why using a statistic like this is, well, dumb. However, anti-gunners still love to use it, presenting it as some kind of proof that defensive uses of a firearm aren’t that common.

I wonder how they’d explain a case where a dog attack was stopped by an armed citizen, then.

A dog loose on a downtown Roanoke street attacked two people Thursday morning before a bystander shot it with a handgun.

Two people were taken to the hospital in ambulances for treatment, but names or conditions were not available. The dog was taken from the scene with two gunshot wounds to Angels of Assisi, where it was euthanized, Roanoke police Capt. Chester Smith said.

The dog’s owner, who lives in an apartment in the same area where the attack happened, said the dog got out when he opened the door, Smith said. The owner has not been charged at this time. The incident is still under investigation.

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Paul Burek, who was servicing a copy machine at Curry Copy, had witnessed the …Read the Rest

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