"I'm shocked," Norby said. "No one goes out with a full clip (in a gun) to garden unless they intend to use it."
Rapidly firing bullets in a residential neighborhood where children are playing is outrageous, Norby said.
"What you did on this day would shock the consciousness" of any community, she said. "It makes me question your mental health."
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This Judge Norby character sounds like a real ignorant piece of work i.m.h.o.
First, sorry for resurrecting a couple months old post, just couldn't help myself when I read what this judge had to say about the situation. Clearly it must be some sort of political statement meant to dredge up emotions in her fellow anti-gun libtards or make a nice blurb in their local rag right? Nobody really thinks this is a logical statement do they?
Any time you have reason to have a loaded gun it should have a full 'clip' (ahem, magazine!) right? I think I'd be much more suspicious of the person who goes out with ONE bullet that they went there with the preconceived intent to use it. Or the person who goes out with NO bullets as clearly their only intention can be to intimidate people with it, or perhaps commit suicide by cop (If they have drawn it and brandished it at least, I know carrying to and from range in some locales and other reasons exist for carrying an empty weapon).
As for the rapidly firing bullets part, if the first one doesn't do the job what should you do then? Count to five before you use another? Was he spraying all over the neighborhood endangering all around or were all those bullets fired in the general area of... inside the dog. If it is the latter then there is NO negligence or possible 'outrage' that the judge seems to tirade about.
The facts of actually shooting the dog and whether one believes there is a legitimate threat to their safety are almost impossible to assess without having been there. But I would not hesitate to draw and shoot a large dog which I believed was about to attack me, or that someone had commanded to attack me (hasn't happened to me but my father once had a neighbor tell their dog to 'sick' him, my father was an off-duty LEO at that time and carrying, he did shoot the dog, nothing came of it legal wise.) I am an animal lover but any animal comes far behind any human when it comes to safety, even a non-vicious animal can become a safety hazard and growing up on a farm I have had to put them down before, namely a startled steer with a man pinned against an enclosure behind.
I'm just glad that I don't live in an area where judges like this typically reside. I believe my state's (AZ) stand your ground law would back me up if I had to deal with a vicious animal even if it required discharging in a neighborhood. Correct me if I'm wrong.
