Reply #10: And you'd be wrong

[Euromutt]

I actually tend to dislike dogs as a rule, with exceptions for dogs who belong to friends and understand where my rightful place in the pack structure is. Additional problem is that I spent several years as a volunteer at a wolf sanctuary, and I get really frustrated with dogs because they're so stupid by comparison.

The point of my observation was that firearms are inanimate objects; guns don't shoot people of their own accord, but only when they are mishandled by humans, and when a firearm discharges as a result of a dog stepping on it, that's because the human owner of the firearm was careless. I'm happy the only person who got hurt was the owner of the shotgun himself.