“Now I truly understand how ever-more-draconian gun laws slither in under the radar...it’s “simpler” than fighting them.”
Gun laws? Guns don’t walk the neighborhood and shoot people on their own. Same with pools, hot dogs and everything else you mentioned.
The “dogs don’t kill people owners do” reasoning is purely absurd. The owners in these stories are rarely present or directing their dog to attack. The dogs do it on their own, on instinct.
It’s more aptly described as “owners can’t stop pit bulls from killing people”. Therefore whether by regulation or extermination the breed should not be available.
It is like any other public threat which kills, they are not humans. We do the same with other dangerous animals, stuck accelerators, improperly stored chemicals, explosives, etc. A civil society removes the threat.
“A civil society removes the threat”
And the nanny staters *always* decide what constitutes a threat.
Congratulations.
Here you are, an alleged conservative, pushing a liberal agenda.
The bottom line is, despite the attempts to deflect and deny, breed ban legislation ALL come from the same source; liberal animal groups such as peta.
They want NO domesticated animal ownership allowed and are just using the most “obvious” animals to to jump start their inevitable steamroller agenda.
It is emotional manipulation at its lowest form and a grim testimony to the expertise they posses in brainwashing the masses with ‘emotional trigger words’.
How could *anyone* “decent” possibly be against exterminating dogs who “kill babies and old people”?
[high hypocrisy, that, since they cheerfully support on-demand abortion and assisted suicide]
First they pick the “worst” offenders and once they’re ‘eradicated’, they _will_ slowly work their way through all the dog breeds until they finally reach their goal of *no* privately owned dogs allowed.
It astonishes me that supposedly smarter and more constitutionally aware ‘conservatives’ cannot see they’re being played for suckers.
“A civil society removes the threat”
Yes.
I’ve noticed that I can’t own any automatic ‘assault rifles’ and collectors will no longer be able to purchase M1 Garands.
Too much of a ‘threat’.
If you honestly cannot see the ideological correlation of *any* loss of private rights to own any particular possession, the liberals have won and this nation is doomed.
Personally, I will defend to the death the freedom of Americans to own whatever they can afford to buy, simply because they have [or should I say, *had*] the right to, even if it’s something I would *never* personally want, myself.
Those, however, who abuse that right and cause injury to others must be punished accordingly.
I used to wonder why some FReepers fled the US and now lives as ex-pats in another country.
I thought they were cowards to abandon the fight.
Now I understand that they’ve realized this country is doomed to being liberally legislated to death ‘for our own good’.
I, for one, -feel- the pot of water getting warmer.
Some, obviously, do not.
No one ever mentions the 800 pound gorilla in this particular room; exactly *whom* is responsible for owning the ~vast~ majority of these ‘dangerous dogs’?
Clue: they’re not Amish.
Address that.
[oh, wait...we’re not *allowed* to]