I want to so bad...

[KenP]

OK, I wasn't going to watch the video and started to form an opinion based on what you two said, but curiosity got this cat and I watched it. Terrible.

Then I did some followup. Terrible to watch, but...

Bits and pieces from sources you should read:

Last week, deputy sheriffs concluded that Orlando businessman Christopher Comins acted legally after developer Daryl Carter asked him to kill dogs chasing cattle on Carter-owned land on Narcoossee Road.
Both dogs survived, despite four bullets hitting Raley and three bullets hitting Hoochie, who lost an eye.

Florida property owners have the right to protect livestock from wild dogs and unleashed pets.

The shooting stopped after the dogs' owner, Christopher Butler, jumped a fence and ran to his wounded pets.

(Comins) said he thought the dogs were wolves, as did others among the bystanders watching the scene along Narcoossee Road, according to interviews Friday. In a three-way telephone conversation with his lawyer, Comins told the Orlando Sentinel what he told deputies last week, that he shot the dogs when they turned and began to run toward him.


"I'm not happy about any of what's happened and certainly wish that none of this ever happened. And had the man had control of his animals and not let them run free, they would never have encircled those cows and tried to get at those calves," Comins said.
"I've been a dog owner all my life, and I own several right now. I wouldn't harm anything without reason."


One of the witnesses reached Friday said Comins stepped in after bystanders at the edge of the pasture waited more than two hours for someone to rescue a newborn calf the dogs were trying to reach inside a circle of larger cows.
"I've had to shoot cattle, unfortunately, after they've been attacked like that by dogs," said Dave Tindall of Orlando. "What happened had to end the way it did. It had to be done for a defenseless animal that had no way of escaping those dogs. If night had fallen, they wouldn't have gone home hungry."

Now my opinion is (Sorry Karsun and I know I'll catch crap from the wife too):

It's tragic the dogs were shot because their owner couldn't maintain control of them.

Comins should be embarrassed by his poor marksmanship.

The law allowed what happened.

And this for the Irish tourist who video taped it: Welcome to America. We got guns.