There is one thing I know for sure.Turtles are not snakes and invoke the love and not the fear of most people.Turtle people in general do not even care we are loosing rights but let them face the lose of there turtles and they will join our cause that is a shame as we are all the same.What people do not seem to realize is this is more about OUR RIGHTS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS than about a few snake species.When or if the ban is complete more species will be added.This will continue until we have no hobby at all.If all importation of exotic species stopped we would still have a good strong hobby.Blood lines would be allot more important and prices would rise.Yet we would survive.It is this act of stopping inter state trade that will damage it all.If given the chance to ban the sale and keeping of all snakes came up ,these same people would do it that are doing the python ban now.Fear mongering is nothing new.The fear of snakes is not new.Even the limitation of our rights is not new.The problem is that so much has been limited that they are running out of rights to take and get away with it.So lets save our people from ourselves this has gone farther than I thought it could.
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Archie Bottoms

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