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}From article <1993Jan4.130458.7348@email.tuwien.ac.at>, by holger@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Holger Reusch (Dipl. Gerhard + Joe)):
} You are confronted with a very  unfriendly  and  rather  big  dog
} (growling,  foam  at  the mouth, suspected rabies) in your garden
} (so carry laws are not an issue).  What gun/ammo would  you  like
} to have with you?

This happened to me a few years ago.  I was puttering around the back yard
of the house I'd recently moved into when I heard growling and barks.
Looking up, I saw my neighbor's two dobermans had knocked a couple of
boards out of our fence and were not pleased with my presence.

I decided the best course was to establish just who was the alpha male
around here.  I approached the growling canines and, putting on my
sternest look and voice, said "You broke my fence!"

That was not the response they expected.  While they whined a bit and
tried to figure out what to do about me ("Have we been bad dogs?" "I
dunno.  He seems to think so."), I calmly walked up to the fence and
replaced the boards.  The dogs never bothered me again.

Note the lack of firearms in the above story.  I didn't own any at the
time.  Even if I had, using one in an urban environment would have been
iffy.  At worst, I might have been jailed.  At best, my relations with my
neighbors would have been irreparably strained.

Firearms are our _last_ line of defense.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
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