I understand your feelings of limited sympathy for this person, just a little bit. Sure, he could have "just moved" (not that easy if he owned the house and couldn't sell it). But I am still enraged that a citizen who apparently had not been a problem to society up to the point the law changed, now has had his home violated and his property confiscated. Laws ought to exist to serve a particular purpose. What purpose does this law serve? To make reviled outlaws out of otherwise law-abiding, productive citizens?

Can you enlighten us, who brought the bill to the state legislature? In other places it has been the animal rights movement. A few times it has been in response to an incident (escape; bite; animal neglect case; etc) involving animal(s). Was there an incident in WA that provoked this legislation? Or was the AR movement once again successful?

Thanks,
Jimi

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