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To: Finny

If you want to find ‘us people’, try looking for your area’s Bully Breed Club. They’re all over, full of responsible owners who spend their time and money to help other owners learn about their dogs, and how to care for them. If you find a way to force druggies and naive dogs-are-people-too moms to join and show an interest in their animals, do let me know. Otherwise, we’re going to have to continue to trust people to make wise decisions for themselves, as adults, and punish them AFTER they fail.

Asking a private citizen to police the dog-owning habits of idiots is as masturbatory as asking us to police the car driving habits of irresponsible teens, or the gun-owning habits of inner-city thugs.


39 posted on 02/15/2010 7:33:36 AM PST by LongElegantLegs (Raise the fanged and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weaponed mistress...)
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To: LongElegantLegs
"Punish them AFTER they fail"? You mean after an innocient victim minding his/her own business on pubic or his/her own private property, is DEAD or in intensive care? THAT's your "solution"? Then get ready for breed banning.

"You people" in Bully Breed Clubs had better change your mindset and get behind the power of pure peer pressure that you as free citizens have a God given right to exert, and in this case, have a DUTY to exert if you want to keep breed bans from happening.

When the GOVERNMENT goes nanny-state, that's one thing, and a very bad thing indeed. When private citizens come down on other citizens that abuse a privilege to the point of making it likley that it will be taken away, that's the right thing if they want to protect their rights and keep the government from stepping in.

This is the equivalent of having Dads in the neighborhood. Before the onslaught of single mothers, boys in the neighborhood behaved because their own or somebody else's dad would come kick their ass; no cops were needed. YOU are saying that it's better to let the kid go to jail and have the government handle it.

You want to keep the Bully Breeds from being banned? Then start using your own freedom to pressure irresponsible people from having the dogs and stop apologizing for it and trying to put it off on the government.

40 posted on 02/15/2010 7:47:55 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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