Seriously, animal licenses are hardly unusual or abnormal. I am surprised San Diego hadn’t already had this in place being a larger city.
Where’s the constitutional right to own an animal and let it roam all over other people’s property? Do you have a constitutional right to hoard animals and not take care of them and ignore local government health codes and laws and local animal laws? These people can at the local level tell San Diego to stuff it if they don’t want this. I am all for local control. The states (and the people, state and local level) can set their own norms.
And like other people everywhere they can also ignore the law, which many people obviously do. They can also keep their animals indoors and not license them and nobody will ever know they have them. And many people do this to.
What’s abnormal or unusual isn’t the issue. We have slipped very far; what’s normal and usual is no longer what’s good and reasonable.
We have a marxist President who’s claim to power is that he reads a teleprompter in the top percentile. I don’t want what’s normal and usual any more. I want what’s good and reasonable.
They don’t even force you to get licenses for normal pets in Europe. America is supposed to be better than Europe.