The most glaring of which is that whoever found a need to fire a gun in a residential area is probably right. The second major assumption is that if any info is missing, it supported the nut job who needs a friggin' gun to ride a bike in a neighborhood and actually fired in close proximity where people live.

Read any of the articles that mention where the dog was. All of them mention the dog being in the yard.

Anyone can concoct some John Wayne situation where the threat clearly identifies itself, there's time to make an action plan, and the gun saves the day. Since these situations are extremely rare in real life, there's a certain element that manufactures these situations, even if they can't even admit to themselves that's what's happening. Normal people live all over the place without incident, but gun nut lives are always full of stories where weapons were indispensable.

If you need a gun to ride a bike, you should give up cycling. Seriously. Roughly 700 cyclists die every year and the vast, vast majority of them are hit by cars. Worried about dog bite injuries? I'll bet understand dog packs and what it's actually like to be at the business end of a dog better than most people here -- sometime back, I was off the bike for a couple weeks and it took months to get my right hand working properly after an unfortunate encounter. But dog injuries of this type are extremely rare. Broken bones, teeth, etc from ordinary crashes not involving dogs or cars are very common.

If you think your gun makes you safe, that's your right. If you think carrying it makes you more prepared than others, great. But frankly I'm concerned about people who think they need weapons where the children, elderly, and just about everyone else does not.