They "released them" ... hmmm ... The dogs release themselves half the time. They're in charge, not the owner. It's part of the "dysfunctional" thing.
We have a choice to make in the way that best preserves personal freedom.
To nail the bastards that bring these dogs to the table, there would have to be serious teeth. There would be no other way. People who raise "dysfuncional pets" are the majority, so it would be easy to figure a general demographic's percentage of dysfunctional dog breeds that have the track record and ability to heavily maim or kill human beings.
There are lots of dysfunctional dogs. Some of them bite. Others crap where people step. They are pains in the ass, but I can tolerate quite a bit of that because I know what they mean to the people who own them. But few dysfunctional dogs have the demonstrated will and physical power to kill human beings.
People who have "dysfunctional pets" are part of human nature and will be with us always. Regulating the owner of a nasty chihuahua with the same "blind justice" as you regulate the owner of two pitbull dogs would require an extreme invasion of government.
The longer we pretend that the owner of an errant chihuahua or a spaniel is as deeply reprehensible as the owner of an errant dog with the demonstrated capability and will to attack and kill humans, the louder there will be cries for breed banning, and the more reasonable those cries will be.
Otherwise responsible pit bull afficionados appear are too whimpery go out and engage in some head-on peer-pressure harshness on the dickheads who mortally endanger average neighborhoods with stupid "pet" choices. Instead, they whine about how terrifyingly freedom threatening it would be for the government to come down hard on what choice they damned well want to make in the pet department.
They are the ones who could make government intervention never happen ... but they won't even cop to the fact that their "pets" are in a whole different class with regard to danger. So this is not an auspicious beginning.
I don't like the idea of banning dog breeds, but .... Dammit!!! A lady should be able to unload the groceries out of her car without finding herself cornered by two snarling pit bulls in her own kitchen.
Exactly... I wish I'd said that!
Have you done anything yet about the problem down the steet?
We normally get these arguments from gun control advocates.
Substitute "N-town Saturday Night Special" for Pit bull.
Your argument is exactly the same.