What your not aware of is that there HAS BEEN reform and lots of it over the last 20 years. The Herp Industry was the "WILD WEST" in it's early days with no permits needed anywhere for anything. All species sold were imported legally or smuggled. NOTHING WAS CAPTIVE BRED. We have evolved and conformed to what it is today but you don't know that because you weren't born yet and couldn't possibly know. Now 80-90% of all herps sold are captive produced. You're still missing the whole concept of a little thing in the Declaraton of Independence called "the pursuit of happiness" and our right to have it. Once again how is your pursuit of happiness and freedom affected by your neighbor having a venomous snake which in most states are strictly regulated. This same nieghbor likely has guns and cars also. Does any of this affect you personally? NONE OF IT AFFECTS YOU UNLESS THE NEIGHBOR BREAKS THE LAW AND THEN THE LAWBREAKER IS PUNISHED. The point is none of us have the right to tell others how they should live. People that think like that are zealots such as Osama Bin Ladin. He would kill any infidel he could and there are some right wing Christian zealots who might feel the same way. We had a Tea Party in Boston a LONG TIME AGO to insure this doesn't happen here....
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Tom Crutchfield
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