[Finny]

Every conservative forum needs its nanny-state contingent, no?

Yes, just as every conservative forum needs its "NO DOGGY PROFILING!!!" contingent that views profiling dog breeds as politically incorrect and freedom-threatening as profiling young Middle Eastern men in airports. The errant poodle or spanies poses the same danger to the community as the errant pit bull or rottweiler, dammit, because it's only right!! NO DOGGY PROFILING!!!

*sigh* The feminized "dogs are people too!" defenders of these creatures are the real liberals-in-disguise whose whine "nanny-staters!!" is their cop-out response. For the record, I don't want to see the dogs banned. I want to see breed-specific hard-core regulation, I want to have the right to shoot these dogs on-sight if I see them running loose in public, and I want to walk down any damned public street I please without worrying about being critically injured or killed by some asshat's powerdog.

[proud_yank]

Thanks for the ignorant and arrogant post.

Where did I say anything about profiling? There are plenty of breeds (huskies, chows, heck, even jack russell terriers can be nasty) that are 'aggressive', other than pit bulls. Given that such a label exists, and it is well established that certain breeds are more aggressive than others, that 'profiling' already exists.

As far as I am concerned, shoot any dog that attacks you, and I believe in the owner being held accountable for an attack regardless what breed it is. In some states now, a dog barking at you is considered a 'viscious dog', which is well beyond absurd.

If you shoot someone's dog for merely running off-leash in public, I hope it lands you in jail.

[GMMAC]

Surely if your expressed position made any logical sense whatsoever you'd be able to name at least one group of experts in the field who are in agreement with it.

Until you can cite & document even one which does, it's perfectly reasonable to dismiss you out-of-hand as an emotionally-driven social fascist blowhard.

Doubtless no one opposed to your 'breed ban' solution has any dispute with people protecting themselves and/or literally 'throwing the book' at specific irresponsible dog owners.
However, legitimate conservatives favor solutions based upon individual responsibility & personal accountability as opposed to nanny-statist shotgun dictates which quite plainly reject both.