It's a dog.  If your dog charges me and my three year old, even one step out on the roadway, I'm not going to tackle it, or put myself between it and my child, I'm going to shoot it until it stops moving.

That's a promise.

I expect no less from anyone else when it comes to my dogs -- and if my dogs do charge you, even one step on the roadway, I wouldn't ask why you shot them, I'd know that I let my dogs down.  It would be my own fault.  I am my dogs keeper.

Please, be a responsible owner.  Don't let your dog down -- if you do, own it.  Nobody takes responsibility for anything these days.

(It's a dog.  Not a person.  Not even close.)