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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
The only parallel between this issue and gun control that you can draw is that both essentially punish or place unreasonable burdens on responsible users/owners at the expense of a minority. These days, people seem to not mind harming the majority of a user group, so long as it's an activity that they don't partake in or if it won't affect them personally.
What is the difference between the dog issue and the offenses and injuries that occur from motor vehicles? With cars, everyone is happy to wait until something bad occurs until you punish the guilty party only. Why would this be different?
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In addition to MattyC - there are also a series of punishments in place to penalize drivers for bad behavior PRIOR to anything bad happens. These punishments can get quite severe including losing the right to even drive at all.
So the comparison isn't a good one.
Plus - what would we collectively lose as a society in terms of quality of life, by not being able to have aggressive large dogs in urban environments? I think we'd all be just fine.