I don't accept your premise that I am responsible for your safety. If my dog is no threat to you or your family, leave me and my dog out of the equation. That is similar to the gun argument. If I or my guns are of no threat to you or your family, leave me out of the equation. It's a simple concept, really. But one that the left fails to fully understand.
Actually, you won't accept responsibility for anyone's reasonable assurance of non-aggression from you. You think you can opt out of the social contract to which every societal member belongs.
If my dog is no threat to you or your family, leave me and my dog out of the equation.
Happily! Feel free to move to an island with nobody but you and your vicious urban thug accessory animal.
If I or my guns are of no threat to you or your family, leave me out of the equation.
Which one of your guns runs out the door when you open it? Which one do you have penned up in your back yard? Which one has free will?
It's a simple concept, really. But one that the left fails to fully understand.
"Equation" implies balance. There appears to be an 'imbalance' between vicious chihuahua maulings and pit bull maulings. The courts and local law enforcement are empowered by the citizenry to address rogue animal ownership and custodianship, even if it means legal sanction, within the boundaries of local and state law (it's not a Constitutional issue, as with gun ownership -- not that the analogy has specific validity anyway, as I keep having to point out).
Do you have a driver's license? Do you realize that is a manifestation of a greater Social Contract? Driving is a privilege, granted by the state, under rules agreed to by greater society.
Additionally, you are not "responsible for my safety" -- that's hyperbole. But you are responsible for your own behavior (and that of your animal, which has free will) in the sense you are not allowed to recklessly endanger the safety of me, or others.
By the way your car doesn't have free will either, so go ahead and own as many as you like. But if you drive one, and you're drunk (or your cherished pit bull is driving?) you will likely lose your privilege to drive, and justifiably so, under the social contract you agreed to honor.
No apologies for 'beating the dead horse' and humiliating your specious arguments.