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In reply to the discussion: TX mom charged after shooting her 5-year-old son while trying to shoot a dog [View all]mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)30. When bicycles were the new rage--in the 1880's--
gun manufacturers found a new market for shooting dogs when the world lived in fear of contracting rabies.
On July 6, 1885, a 9 year old boy named Joseph Meister was mauled by a rabid dog. A local doctor treated the wounds and told the family that the only person who could save Joseph was Louis Pasteur. After much pleading, Pasteur agreed only after consulting with a couple of real doctors who said Joseph was a "dead boy walking". Joseph received 13 inoculations in 11 days and made a complete recovery. The word leaked out and patients came streaming in the world over. At the time of Pasteur's death 9 years later, over 20,000 people had been given his post-exposure prophylactic vaccine.
https://www.tuckahoevet.com/post/a-history-of-rabies
The area of Houston where this woman was biking with her child is not a "country lane". Dogs are usually vaccinated for rabies these days, but who the hell knows in Texas? Still, I'd wager she wasn't carrying the gun because she feared encountering a rabid dog. Instead, she became just another statistic regarding a gun owner who ends up shooting herself or someone she knows, accidentally. Right.
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TX mom charged after shooting her 5-year-old son while trying to shoot a dog [View all]
ecstatic
Jun 2021
OP
It's a relief to know that Texans are now free to spew hot lead everywhere they go!
hatrack
Jun 2021
#3
In the name of fairness and equality, shouldn't all dogs in Texas be armed?
KY_EnviroGuy
Jun 2021
#11
When I go out to ride my bike w/ my kid I always bring a gun along (/sarcasm)
MissMillie
Jun 2021
#12
My mom used to bike 3 miles to work, she carried a squirt bottle with vinegar for dogs.
haele
Jun 2021
#19
Who among us hasn't shot at dogs from a moving bicycle and accidently shot our kids?
hatrack
Jun 2021
#17
So now, in Texas, I can combine the "stand your ground" law and the "anyone can carry" law
CCExile
Jun 2021
#22
Why would anyone choose to vacation on the Texas coast? Knowing everyone MIGHT have gun?
usaf-vet
Jun 2021
#23