Good-guy-with-a-gun shoots family dog during child's birthday party.

[RandySF]

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A 5-year-old's birthday party took a grisly turn on Saturday after her family's dog escaped from the yard and was shot by an armed pedestrian.

Emily Martinez recalls hearing a gunshot after her dog Clifford jumped a fence during her daughter's party, The Denver Post reported. The family poured into the street and found a stranger, apparently walking his own dog, standing over the family pet, still brandishing a gun.

According to neighbors and guests at the party, the man who shot the dog was shouting that he was within his rights.

"I have a concealed weapon license," they recall him saying.

The animal was shot twice in the neck, and died after the family rushed him to a veterinarian.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/family-dog-birthday-party-shot

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

1. MY RIIIIIIOOOOOOTS

You can bet this asshole will be voting Rethuglican in November.

[msongs]

2. dogs will need to carry guns to protect themselves from human gun owners nt

[BlueJazz]

3. Oh me.

Poor girl. Poor dog. Poor family.

[Politicalboi]

4. There could have been a gunfight over this

"Martinez also told the Post that the man pointed the gun at several people as they gathered around the fallen animal. In response, Martinez's husband ran inside to get his own gun, but by the time he returned to the scene the shooter was gone."

That asshole shouldn't have pointed his gun at anybody, but if he stuck around, who knows how far this would have escalated all because of guns. How do guns work at the beach I wonder. Don't gun nuts feel threatened at the beach? Can't get sand into "precious".

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Locking, sorry, but this is a local gun story, violates the SoP for GD

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