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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTX mom charged after shooting her 5-year-old son while trying to shoot a dog
According to neighbors, Vargas, her son, and another family member were riding bikes down the street when a dog ran out. That dog, named Bruno, is a 6-month-old boxer puppy. Bruno's owner did not want to appear on camera, but told us what happened.
In Ring doorbell video obtained by ABC13, you can see Bruno running out with the owner following immediately behind. The owner can be seen telling the dog to come back in the house. The dog roams out onto the street, and less than a second later, multiple shots rang out. Gunshots were then followed by extended screaming by the little boy's parents.
From the video, you can tell only a few seconds elapsed from the dog running out to gunfire. Bruno was grazed on one leg, but otherwise fine. Bruno's owner was given a Class C misdemeanor citation for having a loose dog.
https://abc13.com/amp/mom-accidentally-shoots-her-son-trying-to-shoot-dog-5-year-old-shot-by-angelia-mia-vargas-deadly-conduct-of-a-firearm/10728726/
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Wow just amazing. What kind of psychopath shoots a dog that's just wandering the neighborhood and with the owner right behind it?
Diamond_Dog
(32,068 posts)Guns are the solution to every problem in life for some people
cate94
(2,813 posts)With deadly conduct with a firearm. I doubt thats a misdemeanor. The dog owner was charged with a misdemeanor for having a loose dog.
Agree with your assessment of the shooter. Crazy.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)For having a loose dog.
The mom is getting worse charges. The firearm add on makes it a 3rd degree felony.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)No permits, no training, no background checks - open carry, concealed carry, rifles, pistols, shotguns - savor the sweet flavor of teh Freedumb!!
Diamond_Dog
(32,068 posts)Paladin
(28,273 posts)Yeah, right.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)These are the people who will be carrying guns around. It's insane!
ExciteBike66
(2,374 posts)betsuni
(25,623 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)robbob
(3,538 posts)What kind of sick asshole shoots at a six month old boxer puppy?
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Someone's dog is loose for a few seconds and you grab a gun and start shooting at it? WTF? Someone shoots my dog and they are going to have a big problem with me.
Glad the child is OK, hopefully they get removed from that dangerous home.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Someone with such poor judgment and a hair-trigger temper has no business being anywhere near a gun.
I am glad the dog wasn't harmed. Poor pup!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)Provide all able dogs with a gun collar that fires one shot each time it barks and in the direction of what the dog is looking at. Shouldn't an animal be allowed to stand its ground?.........
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Is there a law in Texas that penalizes dangerous abuse of the human title "Mother"?
KY........
MissMillie
(38,580 posts)Say what you will about Michael Moore, the culture of fear is a huge problem (as he highlighted in "Bowling for Columbine" ) .
It seems the attitude is that if you don't arm yourself you'll be a victim. The RW media feeds it, for sure.
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)It's like the Death Wish movies of the 70s.
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mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)What kind of f'ed up neighborhood is that?
Seriously, who would want to live there?
Will we see a migration out of Texas due to these open carry gun laws? Or will all the wild west fanatics from other states move there so they can live out their fantasy of shooting whatever bothers them?
haele
(12,677 posts)Mainly residential areas, so there were always a few dogs that would get loose trying to protect their property. Some owners have a bad habit of just letting dogs out in the backyard to do the morning business, and not all back fences will keeps large, bored dog in.
Vinegar is much more effective as a long-term training device. And Mom was a good shot. No dog would charge her more than about three times.
Haele
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)When bicycles were a new rage, a class of small pistol was developed specifically for bicycle riders to ward off dogs when riding on country lanes and such. These remained in the usual stock of stores selling bicycles into the early years of the twentieth century.
mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)gun manufacturers found a new market for shooting dogs when the world lived in fear of contracting rabies.
https://www.tuckahoevet.com/post/a-history-of-rabies
The area of Houston where this woman was biking with her child is not a "country lane". Dogs are usually vaccinated for rabies these days, but who the hell knows in Texas? Still, I'd wager she wasn't carrying the gun because she feared encountering a rabid dog. Instead, she became just another statistic regarding a gun owner who ends up shooting herself or someone she knows, accidentally. Right.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)There is pretty much zero need to carry a piece around nowadays, and people who feel they need to are not right in the head.
Just one of those 'history doesn't repeat but it rhymes' things that amuse me.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)Learn something new everyday.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)First, who the fuck needs to take their gun on a neighborhood bike ride (in, I would assume, suburbia)?
That having been said, what nutcase just randomly decides that a neighborhood puppy is a good thing to shoot at (dick move)...
Lastly, how do you miss your intended target SO BADLY that you shoot YOUR OWN KID?
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Besides, it's too early/not the time to politicize this/can't attack responsible gun owners/millions of Americans didn't get shot today/you're just trying to take away our freedom/2nd Amendment warglebargle/you used incorrect terminology for magazine/clip/round/bullet/caliber/automatic vs. semi-automatic REFUTE THAT, LIBTARD!!!!
Volaris
(10,274 posts)On the jedi maxim 'theres always a bigger fish', it would also follow that theres always a better shooter. Shes maybe lucky she missed the dog.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)at least temporarily. That woman is not a responsible gun owner.
CCExile
(473 posts)to take out magahats that accost me for wearing a mask? Did Abbot think this through? Am I allowed to drive over conservative protestors legally yet? I'm a Texan Buddhist, but not a fanatic, and everyone slips sometimes.
usaf-vet
(6,209 posts)Sadly,... that's what the world calls a war zone.
We already have enough of them outside of our borders.
Can the rest of us just give Texas back to Mexico?
And finally, why would ANY COMPANY choose to have a presence in Texas?
Putting their employees in mortal danger.
cab67
(3,007 posts)...and please tell me advisories will be issued by other countries against travel to Texas.
Grins
(7,231 posts)Under Republicans, a disfunctional state.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,898 posts)"How Guns Make Us Safer."
The real shame is that the bullet didn't ricochet into the mother's stomach.
Raine
(30,540 posts)the kid will have it harder growing up with an idiot for a mother.