Reply #12: You have cited no meaningful difference. [View All]

[Lasher]

A gunshot to the head, if properly applied, can be as humane as any method used to dispatch these unfortunate creatures - and perhaps more so that any other method you could reasonably devise. If properly done as I said, they would literally never hear the shot, and would feel no pain or fear whatever. Consider, this way the animal would not have to go through that traumatic trip to the vet's to spend his final moments being injected with drugs by unfamiliar people among strange animals.

Good on you for having volunteered your time to help these animals. But that does not give you and your friends exclusive domain on, or superior claim to, the virtue of compassion.

The rest of your argument is manufactured from whole cloth. There is nothing in the article that indicates he enjoyed killing these animals "in cold blood", or that they suffered more than (or even as much as) the creatures subjected to the "put downs" you witnessed, or that he is a sociopath.

Some people react illogically in cases like this because they don't like guns, and have a conception that shooting an animal is always a terrible thing. But at times like this, don't you think we should put the animal's best interests first and our own preferences last? I do.

Sorry for rambling, but I wish you would think about that. Back to the question I raised, just going by the information presented in the article, I see no justification for the harsh punishment David Santuomo received for doing something that vets routinely do.