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Simply put;

Any man that won't stand up to you won't stand up for you.

I think so, but I am not infallible.

the old lady has 4 cats all fixed, they seldom leave the yard, once in the while they might go next door but are most always on the front porch.

Any man that won't stand up to you, won't stand up for you.

Touché

Not bad. Succinct

Louisiana of all states has some pretty strict laws concerning dogs running at large. Simply put "No person shall suffer or permit any dog in his possession, or kept by him about his premises, to run at large on any unenclosed land, or trespass upon any enclosed or unenclosed lands of another." RS3:2773
RS3:2773D states "Any citizen or officer may kill any dangerous or vicious dog, and no citizen or officer shall be liable for damages or prosecution by reason of killing any dangerous or vicious dog."
This section of law by the way is in our agricultural section of statutes, but applies statewide and does not state that the person killing the dangerous or vicious dog has to be on his own property. The section was clearly designed to protect property (cats ?) from dogs. I think it goes without saying a dog attacking a human can be shot unless said human is himself threatening someone and the dog is acting to defend life or property.

Thought about this over the weekend[my having an agenda of sorts] and I suppose the fellow from down under has a point, I do have an agenda.
30 odd years ago, my wife and I had a Labrador Retriever[our first]. When he was maybe 2-1/2 he came up missing. We lived pretty deep in the woods on a private road off of a pig path type county road. We searched and searched for that dog. We had heard of some youngsters that had shot a cow[bow] off the side of the road a few miles away. Also that these boys had been seen dragging a dead dog[not ours] in town behind a truck. A school bus driver saw one of our flyers, called and said to check about a mile on down the road, "that he had seen what looked like a black dog over the bank".
I found the dog, arrow still in him, and he was 'drug' down the road!
The boys confessed, thought he was a bear or a raccoon, weren't sure......this while one rides in the bed of the truck with bow.
They also confessed to the cow and multiple other items similar.

So yeah, I hate a m'fer that will kill anyone's pet for no good reason.

I don't know what your laws are, but looking at it from a "what's right" viewpoint as opposed to "what's legal", overall your kin is still right and the running man is still wrong. The cats had no right to be in your yard. Dogs chased them back, in the process, having no right to be in his yard. That said, they posed no threat to human life and the implication is they posed no threat to the cats thus, there was no need to kill them. There was no need to brandish a pistol threatening your stepfather either. Your stepfather bears maybe 10% of the blame and that's being very generous to the neighbor.

Apparently, the sheriffs dept saw no wrongdoing on my S-fathers side.
The other guy, not so much.
3 felony and 2 misdemeanor charges, that with a $50K bond to get out of jail.
Pretty high bail/bond around here for a 'non-human' involved crime.

If I recall, you said that the guy was a convicted felon. A felon in possession of a gun will get him in trouble. But a felon possessing a gun and sticking it in somebody's face will get them in big trouble.

Shooting the dogs like he did is a big red flag, I'd think.

He probably was feeling like shooting your dad, but settled for the dogs.

I'm betting that's what the cops are thinking about it, too.

Problem here is you are making an assumption and using that assumption as a kernel to question the OP's post.

I don't know what happened. Doesn't impact me directly.

But I do know higher-ed and higher-ed types. Spent almost 7 years in college. Worked for universities for over 4 years after that and continue to engage with them on a professional level to this day. My wife has taught and worked for community colleges, colleges and universities for the better part of her entire professional career.

If you think simply because someone is a prof, or ass't prof, that they are sane and they wouldn't do something as described in the OP's post, you clearly have know knowledge of what you speak. Those employed by universities, particularly tenured profs and those that were employed long enough to retire are about as far removed from reality as any group of professionals I have ever dealt with. Wouildn't surprise me in the least for some retired prof to go off the dep end like this.

a man capable of putting a gun in your face and then shooting two dogs point blank shouldn't be upright.

I was given 'bad info' from my mother initially, he was 'charged' with felony level charges[3] over this.

I don't think you're understanding my meaning. When I say, "10%", that is next to nothing.

I don't know what the charges are, but it is human-involved when part of it is the potential felon pulling a gun on your stepfather, whether charged for that or not, you can rest assured LE took it into consideration.

Sounds about like that dude from Ohio that had fence issues... people these days are beyond stupid.

Of course i don't know that I could stop myself if you killed one of our dogs. I"d be in jail for something like manslaughter I"m sure... they are like our children.

Of course the cats had nothing to do with this, killing cats is as stupid as killing the dogs was....