Originally Posted by digitydash
Don't get me wrong I do not hunt,but a gun shot kill instanly or maybe 30 seconds.Dog fighting last for hours of brutal fighting till a dog is to tired to defend it self or is almost dead.I see a big difference in the two.
If you even hit a police dog you get more time then hiting a human officer.
Having never experienced being killed slowly or being killed instantly I do not feel that I have to proper knowledge to indicate a difference in severity.
As far as the difference between hitting a police dog and a police officer, most people find the intimidation of a guy with a gun to be plenty of incentive NOT to attack a police officer and the ones that do so anyway are generally in a position where the addition time for assault on a police officer would be a drop in the bucket for them compared to what they already are facing.
But enough sidetracking, this is about Vick and he commited a crime, plead guilty and was given slightly more then the average time given for such a crime. So according to our system I'd have to say his punishment is fair, but since our system is hardly fair and not very effective it is my opinion that almost two years in prision will no effectively achieve the desired results (i.e. preventing dog fighting). People say Vick is a horrible role model and because of him kids will look up to him and think dog fighting is ok, but before changes were brought up and the whole media spectacle started it wasn't common knowledge that Vick was involved in dog fighting, infact I imagine very few of his fans even had any idea about dog fighting was.
