Michael Moore says, “If you are worried about your safety, get a dog.” This was said to a reporter asking about his stance on gun control. Sigh. Get a dog? Why? To perpetuate taught violence coming from “status” or “guard” dogs? With this stupid statement he’s basically advertising that people should get dogs and purposely make them vicious. And another point: Anyone breaking into your home, any criminal, and even the cops or the feds showing up at your house… They’ll just shoot your dog. With a gun. And kill it. So his argument against guns is not only to exploit dogs, but to pose like dogs will actually protect people from real threats, people that will STILL HAVE GUNS! What a joke.

Is it true that dogs might deter some petty criminals and just certain people in general? Yeah, probably. But dogs wouldn’t deter violent criminals, nor do they deter the cops or would they deter the feds. So if he wants to place dogs in the middle of a gun control debate then those are the scenarios that need the focus. It’s a stupid argument and one that not only aims to justify the use of “guard” dogs, but will also serve to create more idiots that are treating their dogs like shit. The last thing that dogs like Pit Bulls need, the media-made “monsters” of the present time, is to have more people flock to them in an effort to make them vicious or use them as anything other than a family pet. More important for the gun control debate, what Moore is conveniently leaving out is that those dogs (any breed or type) that he is promoting ownership of will quickly be killed by the same guns that he is constantly talking out against. So he’s blatantly attempting to fool the people into trading guns for dogs, knowing full well that the dogs would ultimately be mowed down instantly were anything to happen.

So as a dog-lover you should be appalled by this statement, and as a 2nd amendment supporter you should laugh out loud at his purposeful ignorance. There’s 2 ultimate points here, they couldn’t be more different. You don’t have to agree with both not to have a problem with either point on its own. You can email Michael Moore directly at MMFlint at AOL dot com and let him know what you think about his flippant exploitation of dogs in the face of such an important and turbulent issue.