Obviously, it won't stop violent crime or even reduce it because removing guns from circulation doesn't reduce violent crime in a noticable way, it just transfers it at best and creates more violence through black markets and trafficking, at worst.
But it's still contributing positively to the world a little bit better. Who knows, the dogs may create comfort or calmness in a home that would prevent a violent crime? Maybe it can indirectly help with violence that way.
What about the people that don’t like dogs but have guns? Regardless, a dog is an okay deterrent against home invaders, unless that home invader have a gun themselves. Then the dog is useless.
Like my guns, like dogs, but the gun is a far better deterrent.
Then they don't participate in the program. The people behind this program clearly do not understand the actual data and I point that out in the OP: they won't really reduce violent crime.
For me, it's more about getting those animals a home instead of euthanized.
I don't know how the data pans out on this point. I'd think that a gun is unseen and an invader wouldn't know. But an invader would know about your dog because of the barking.
Is there data on deterrence from a gun? I don't know how an invader would be able to tell that they would be invading a gun home.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
You're f*cking racist. What about people who live in apartments that don't allow pets? What about people allergic to dogs?
You f*cking monster.
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