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- Pit Bulls should all be killed
Thank you, PETA. (PETA advocates the extermination of all
American Pit Bull Terriers, American Staffordshire Terriers,
and Staffordshire Bull Terriers). You stand in a long line of a notorious
entities
like Hitler who believe in exterminating living creatures
because they were born with the "wrong" look. However, if you
had bothered to READ SB
861, you would have realized that NO WHERE does the state ONLY Pit
Bulls may be targeted. In fact, nowhere does the bill even mention PIT
BULL. It's not a "PIt Bull" bill. It's a breed
discrimination bill, and it will lead to SEVERAL breeds of
dog being targeted, maybe even a breed or dog YOU care about
(and what YOU care about is all that really matters, isn't
it? Anything else can be exterminated).
- I believe in spaying and neutering
Thank you. So do we. Of course, since overpopulation is
a big problem for all breeds, we believe fair is fair. Apply
it equally. But, our big problem with this bill rests not
just with the breed specific spay/neuter (which does NOT
exempt show dogs or working dogs, so it could eliminate all
show and working dogs of certain breeds in CA) but in the
fact that the language in the FIRST paragraph refers to
"dangerous or vicious dogs." This means that home insurance
companies in California will blacklist targeted breeds and
anyone who has a pure or mixed dog of a targeted breed will
likely have to give up that dog (and, yes, service dogs will
be included as well, so say goodbye to your staffie, rottie,
and German Shepherd service dogs and search dogs!)
- No one should own a Pit Bull or Rottweiler (or
Doberman or German Shepherd, etc.)
And only a man and woman should live together in a
loving, romantic relationship. Oh, wait... what right does
the government have to tell people who should be in their
family? If I don't hurt anyone else, I should be left to
live my life alone (and, by the way, most Pit Bulls have
never harmed a soul and should not pay for the crimes of
irresponsible HUMANS that have used them for bad things).
The mark of a free society is allowing people to live their
lives, even though you wouldn't make the same choices they do
and even though you may be unable to understand those
choices.
The mark of a dictatorship is requiring everyone to
live by the choices of ONE person. The United States is not
a dictatorship. Maybe I don't
think people should smoke, or drink, or watch certain
television programs. Maybe I don't think anyone should have
an abortion. Maybe I don't think anyone should be Muslim or Jewish
or Christian or atheist. Maybe I even think that because
SUVs kill more kids per year than ALL dog breeds combined,
no one should own SUVs. People that do not like a breed of
dog have the option of not owning that breed. We ask the dog
haters to leave the rest of us to live our lives responsibly
and ethically so that we may be held accountable for our OWN actions,
not the actions of others.
Finally, even though you believe no one should own Pit Bulls
or Rottweilers, we emphasize that SB 861 is NOT a bill
targeting Pit Bulls or Rottweilers. It is a bill that allows
counties to target any breed(s) they desire, and many
counties are already discussing targeting several different
breeds come January 1, 2006.
- Children come first
Of course they do. Of course, the real threat to
children is bad owners and irresponsible breeders, and by
the way, ALL DOG BREEDS have been responsible for serious
injuries or fatalities to children, including Daschunds and
Pomeranians. Furthermore, automobiles, cigarettes, over the
counter medications, household cleaners, and peanuts all
individually kill more children every year than ALL dog
breeds combined, so if children really do come first, let's
just ban everything. By the way, all the above things,
except dogs, are NOT intelligent, living creatures. They
have no right to existence. They do not feel pain or sadness
or fear. They do not get hungry. They do not feel joy. Yet,
all these things, which kill more children every year than
any breed of dog, still exist, and we still let them exist
because they make OUR lives a little more convenient or
pleasant, even though they kill a few thousand children each
year. But dogs, which do feel pain and fear and joy and
actually harm very few humans each
year (and when they do, it's the result of human
negligence), some people seek to exterminate. I think that
fact alone shows where the real viciousness lies.
The fact is, we could ban all cars and all automobiles and
all medications, and all dogs, and children would still die
because (are you ready for this earth-shattering
revelation?)... human negligence is the real culprit. Target
human behavior, and you start to target the problem.
- Pit Bulls and Rottweilers are the only dogs that maul people. They
are all you ever hear about
Again, this bill isn't a Pit Bull bill, so it might help
if you actually read the bill before commenting on it.
However, we can assure you that other breeds besides Pit
Bulls and Rottweilers maul and even kill people. Ever hear about Diane Whipple? She wasn't killed
by Pit Bulls (but, rather, Presa Canarios). Or the little
girl killed by her two Siberian Huskies? Or the infant
killed by his family Daschund? (If you didn't, hear of the
last two, it's probably because they didn't make top news
because the media couldn't put PIT BULL in the headlines, and
therefore didn't bother reporting them conspicuously).
By the way, our prisons are filled disproportionately with
people of Mexican and African American descent, so based on
your logic, since those ethnic groups seem to commit the
majority of crimes, and they all kill far, far, far more
people every year than all dogs combined, all over the
world, you probably want to get rid of them, too.
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