[Boomer]

I am 100% for this and increasing punishment/penalties for harming innocent animals on purpose.

I doubt they would increase it to what I think it should be but every step in that direction helps. Maybe one day we will figure out people who do this have no business living. Period.

[LouAvul]

How about baby murderers? Do they have to register? Nah. We’ll protect unborn dolphins but slaughter our unborn children.

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good!

Anyone that intentionally harms little kids, the mentally disabled or animals, and those teachers who seduce their students deserve the WORST to happen to them!

Sickos!

[DoughtyOne]

A person that abuses animals can be expected to abuse humans.

They don’t have the empathy gene.

[I want the USA back]

No, because the bar would be constantly being raised. Today, dogs and cats, in ten years chickens, pigs, cows.

[Jeff Chandler]

Fast-forward to the near future when speaking against pedophilia will be considered hate speech.

[Rebelbase]

Abattoir workers most affected.

[Purdue77]

"I am 100% for this and increasing punishment/penalties for harming innocent animals on purpose."

Who gets to define this? Perhaps PETA will say that killing cows, chickens, pigs, etc for food is "harming innocent animals on purpose." Applying "hate-type" penalties to harming animals intentionally slides us down a slope that a more progressive administration could use for their own benefit.

I don't like the idea of anyone intentionally harming my pets or others' pets or even abusing animals meant for slaughter, but I don't want to open the door that seems like a good idea now that might be used later to close down our rights.

Here's a seemingly outlandish example: PETA and others think that we aren't pet owners but are instead pet adopters. If we agreed with that and put a collar on our pets, is that abuse? You might not agree but the Powers-That-Be may just use it to charge you with intentional harm of an animal.

I don't know the future but I don't want to give the next progressive administration; federal, state, or local, an opening to make us feel like we have slipped into 1984.

[caligatrux]

I understand people want to protect animals, and that abusing animals is a sign of something deeper being wrong with you... but I can only see this as more government, bigger government, more overreach, more authoritarian, etc.

[fella]

How long before animal activeists use this to go after the meat industry?

[fella]

How long before animal activeists use this to go after the meat industry?

[fella]

How long before animal activeists use this to go after the meat industry?

[ScottinVA]

I back this 100%. Anyone who willfully abuses animals should damned well have a social stigma attached to them.

[RedStateRocker]

Good.

Anyone who can’t make a clear distinction between animals used for food (who *STILL* should not be subject to any more pain or stress than necessary) and others (be it a PETA member or someone whining about a slippery slope) is an idiot.

Personally, anyone inflicting pain on a dog or cat or parrot should be shot on the spot.

[ConservaTeen]

I don’t think it should be a law, because what happens if a PETA member decided to kill a person on the register. I heard that a sex offender got killed because of the sex offender list. He was 17 and the victim was 14...

[Gay State Conservative]

Before we start “registering” animal abusers why don't we focus on human victims...murderers,abusers of children and the elderly among others?

[Navy Patriot]

Animal Abusers Could Be Made to Register Like Sex Offenders

A feel-good tar baby that would quickly expand to pauperize and "control" property owners who attempt to rid their homes of vermin.

[strider44]

This is dumb. What’s abuse? If you don’t take your pet to the vet, is that abuse? How about shooting chipmunks or squirrels in your yard? If a dog is left outside all the time but is fed is that abuse? How about having a de-clawed cat because it stays in doors but destroys your furniture?

For every case of some deranged asshole setting an animal on fire to torture it there’s hundreds of what I listed above. It will all come down to who decides...

[EEGator]

The lists will increase until everyone is some type of offender. Be careful what you ask for.

[CommerceComet]

Having first-hand experience with some pet Nazis from a rescue shelter, I would be strongly opposed to this proposal without some serious safeguards. Our interaction with these lunatics was so bizarre that it seemed like a Monty Python skit. Fortunately, their vet told them that there was nothing wrong with the dog except she was very old.

Despite a complete lack of evidence, these fanatics were still self-righteously convinced that we were abusing the dog and had this list been available, I'm certain they would have tried to get us listed on this registry.

It is exactly these type of people who will ultimately get control of that registry.