Truth be told, the issue is -- poor decisions, bad parenting by individuals, not a matter of animal behavior and instinct, and not the imagined motivations of people who choose to keep these animals.



Inattentiveness, poor judgment, [lack of] personal responsibility, and poor parenting skills are some of the factors that contribute to preventable "accidents" such as this.



How many children die every year when left unattended in the family car in summer heat? How many get run over/backed over in their own driveway? How many from the family dog? The family gun? How many drown in the family pool?



Like I've said time and time again -- the people calling the tune in this debate make our case. They favor an uninformed and ignorant populace. Dumb it down. Protect us from ourselves. Remove decision making and personal responsibility. Limit our own authority over ourselves. So much easier to control the masses that way.



How are we going to stop these straw man, red herring, fallacious arguments that create the illusion our law makers are working on our behalf, when they are actually doing nothing of the kind? They are in fact, working to further their own interests at our expense.



jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"

John Crickmer

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