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Thanks everyone! I see from reading here that my natural reaction would probably not be the wrong reaction. Sometimes just have to check my reality meter to see if it stills zeroes out!

Good reading and good info.

I think that way also. A 230gr resolution. However, you know how people get with pets. There would definitely be a back lash. Dog rights people versus pit bull haters versus family protectionist versus excessive force versus discharging weapon in city limits, and on and on...

"I feared for the safety of my family!" is absolutely right IMHO. What bothers me is the split second that I would think in my head that I am going to be at ground zero of a huge cluster....or that that is someone's pet!

My daughter at 7yo had a pit bull get excited b/c a small dog had come in to the area and the PB lunged at the 7yo's face and snapped. She was his height and I am sure that he could not distinguish who was the aggressor and who wasn't. I quickly exhibited to him who was the alpha dog. Man did I get in trouble. My oldest daughters boy friend (his dog) looked at me like why was I trying to crash his dogs head on the cement....and on and on.

Had I been carrying I probably would have eliminated the threat. Hard to say... Just don't put ANY of my kids in danger!

Even as I type this, I wrestle with the way I would resolve this in my mind. My dad was a no bull person and I know exactly what he would have done and that is the way he taught me also.

Help me out forum! I need to get this resolved in my mind in the event I ever face it armed!

Waiting to see what the consensus is on this one. I know what I have been trained to do (my old man!) just don't know if I would have balked when the image of the jail bars rolled through my head.