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Indofred
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If the mother had had a handgun nearby, and had practiced with it, the fight with the dog would have been over a lot sooner, and very likely the injuries would have been a lot less.
Get real. A woman in a highly stressful position such as this would probably have been too jittery to fire with any chance of hitting the dog. She'd either miss or hit the kid.
Only a very well trained person with the right mental state would manage a kill shot.
The answer here is, get rid of these pointlessly vicious animals.
None do any good and way too many attack.
Boxers have been know to attack but very rarely, pit bull and similar do it a lot.
The breed exists to kill.