Seriously?

In Missouri, a Deputy entered a house to do a consent search after an arrest. There were three dogs in the house and one growled and nipped at the Deputy. She thought he had bit her and shot the dog. She went outside realized she was uninjured and re-entered the building. The dog was still aggressive and she shot it two more times killing it. The dog was a Chihuahua. A FREAKING Chihuahua, and it took the Deputy three shots! THREE SHOTS! The Deputy is now unemployed for shooting the dog not bad marksmanship.

That reminds me of a story.

A Police Officer I knew many years back was on his way to work one day and saw an injured rabbit on the side of the road. He stopped and put it out of it's misery using his service revolver. When he arrived at work he asked the Chief and Lead Firearms Instructor for rounds to replace the ones he had fired. The Chief wrote him up for using his weapon to kill rabbit. What really pissed the Chief off was that he had missed the first shot and had to take a second.

And the gun prohibitionists tell us the police are the only ones qualified to carry a firearm.

H/T to Radley.