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Originally Posted by PawPaw
...If someone was willing to use lethal force against this particular dog, then he'd be willing to use lethal force against me. Everything else is just details.
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But those details matter.
As much as we love our animals, they are considered by the law to be property. An imminent lethal threat to your dog is not the same as an imminent lethal threat to you or another person. And a person's willingness to use lethal force against you does not justify your use of lethal force against him unless that willingness is manifest by (1) the present ability to kill of cripple you; and (2) the ability to immediately deploy lethal force against you; and (3) the manifest intent to immediately kill or cripple you.