COPS SHOOTING DOGS (also innocent people)

Neither is right but I know which one is more wrong.

Sure wished I could have carried a gun when I was a mailman.

Yeah--our mailman was bit by a farm dog and after having patted our friendly dog on the head every day for a year started throwing rocks and swinging his mailbag at him.

When my dog bit his mailbag he threatened to have him put down.  

At the same time, I confronted him about having seen him acting out with my dog several times before and he said, "that never happened.".  He wasn't aware on three occasions I saw him do it.

There are two basic kind of people:  the ones who believe we share the planet with animals and they have a right to a place and respect here and the ones who think any animal near them should lose it's liberty for disturbing their world.

Americans mostly view animals as pets, in Elsass culture it's enough for you to be brutally beaten/killed we treat our dogs as members of the family, I think it's pretty similar in Nordic cultures.

But let's be real honest most people who carry guns in this country shouldn't be.

That's exactly my point. In America, the only first-world country which still executes its own citizens (less than 4 other countries have a higher rate of capital punishment), its civilian population would much rather enjoy the personal liberties of instantaneous gratification in the form, for example, of ubiquitous self-armament, paired with a radical mistrust of any form of governmental control, including control of security through professional police.

Is it really surprising that America leads the post-industrial world in handgun deaths and murder -- and the police shoot your family on any pretext?!? (And I'm not talking about dogs, I'm talking about people.) In America, human life is considered a resource amongst others, to be traded and valued at market rates, the result of which is a gigantic socio-economic disparity which fuels insecurity, and more guns. Killing dogs seems like a tertiary by-product of the real glaring issues.

Dogs are property.  People are not.

I don't agree with cops shooting dogs for no reason.  Cops do not have the right to shoot people at will, however, and probably also not dogs.  But people definitely not.  Every time a police officer fires his weapon, FIRES it, never mind where the bullet goes, there is an IA inquiry and he is questioned about everything that had to do with the shooting, in order to get to the facts of the case, and then is brought before a shooting board which decides whether it was a good shoot, and if not, how bad the shoot was, in the form of what penalty the officer should face for the bad shoot, from a reprimand up to facing criminal charges.  Also, the policeman is taken off the street until all this is settled.