the OlLine Rebel wrote: “Here is the difference.”
Here is the similarity, both arguments rely upon the all knowing government to define what is in our best interest and protect us from danger.
Still couldn’t answer the post about why local government restricts animal ownership in general?
I can’t agree with your analogy. The right to bear arms is the second amendment to the Constitution. It is specifically protection against tyranny. Misuse of guns may get a person jail time &/or banned from ownership as a felon. Guns can be used in many ways but we have the right to use them, the responsibility to use them safely and the State will enforce those responsibilities.
A pitbull is an animal that may be a pet or a defense. Unlike a gun it is not enshrined in the amendments to the constitution, it can act of it’s own volition and there are brain changes in the pitbull related breeds that result in unanticipated violent attacks where people are maimed or killed.
Just as with guns the owning of pitbulls is subject to State & Local authority guidelines. If the judgement in a locality is that there are too many incidents and owners are not able to adequately restrain the breed type to avoid violent incidents than the locality will ban them. This is not an infringement on Liberty; nor is it a denial of a Constitutionally protected right; it is a public health & saftey issue.
I think the governments while neither all knowing nor infallible have a public duty to make a best effort to safeguard public saftey. It’s part of the cost of living in civilization to give up some freedoms from needing to conform with building regulations, to immunizations for schools, rabies shots for dogs and even indoor cats(which may cause tumors & other ailments).
I have trouble understanding why not another breed, one with less of a tendency to violent attacks? Why with all the breeds available are there so many folks that believe their desire to have a pitbull type outweighs the risks to children and other people? Is it just “I want what I want”?