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I have a paper due towards the end of April, and the topic can be on anything that IS DEBATABLE. I wanted to do my paper on the laws that are trying to limit the reptile community.

I have to show both sides and have documents, people responses, etc.

I would like to know your view, either for or against the new bills about to be passed and/or how you think they will affect the community.

The python ban will in essence kill a large part of the hobby.There are people who have put there life saveings in to the market and will lose everything if this law passes.Imagine you are a breeder of any listed species and this is how you feed your family.In the first days of this proposed law prices dropped.So just the mention of this made people lose millions of hard earned dollars with out a law in place.Ok lets take the common boa constrictor .This group involves many species that only get 5 foot long and some only 4.Yet the law makes no compromise for such species and bills them all the same yet they are not.The largest of this species is no more than 11 feet.These are one of the largest markets in the hobby all will be banned.This in turn will distroy many families ability to eat.It will alone take millions out of the economy in a single day.So in essence only one group will be a major hit on the economy .There is at this point of this ban that has any proof behind it in any way except the burmese python.This species has established wild populations in the only place it can in the USA.IF WE WERE TO BAN THE IMPORT OF THE BURMESE PYTHON that alone would be something we as a reptile nation would not oppose.This in itself would be a move forward in curbing this escape problem that has created this wild population.I do not understand how we as americans can allow the ban of a trade to exist.This is The land of the free.Feral cats have done more damage to wild life on the planet earth than any animal that exists yet no ban is forseen .In the opinion of most breeders and keepers the import ban is a strong asset to this problem.The distruction of wild populations is under way as I write so action has been taken.Is this enough most likley not but it is a start.Now to involve the lacey act on these species is just a way to stop the breeders ability to do across state lines sales.It has come in to play to curb the legal trade in case the ban fails.This is a multi headed attack on all fronts to inable the reptile industry to operate legaly.Human deaths have no impact as this is only a front to hide the agenda of the ANIMAL RIGHTS EFFORTS TO STOP THIS HOBBY.We are no longer just a hobby this is a industry that is being attacked.If any one thinks it will stop at one ban you would be mistaken.This will go like dominos one after another .Are you ready to have the government rule your home and ability to make a liveing I for one am not.I will post more a little later.
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Archie Bottoms

Go to the "Burmese Python" forum and you will get more views, opinions and info on this issue than you will know what to do with. I just read a bunch of it as a matter of fact.

The media and government make me absolutely sick to my stomach in their ploy of getting the already insanely large majority of American ophiophobe's brainwashed into thinking pythons are the Everglades' #1 major problem. This conveniently diverts all the other major problems away from the silly-ass general public's view and gets the agenda "ball" for full-out snake banning rolling up to full speed. Someday soon my small harmless milksnakes will probably be categorized as "dangerous" constrictors.......geeez!!

It's simple, rule #1)...the vast majority of humans have hated snakes since the beginning of time, this is a totally unfounded fear that will NEVER change until the end of time.

Rule #2) It's impossible to change rule #1

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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