[ SHOWGSD-L ] Another approach to BSB
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- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:03:38 EDT
From the Pembroke List. Permission to cross post was received.
(A letter to make the aldermen, legislators think)
A letter to send when a jurisdiction is considering Breed Specific Ban:
This was created by Paul Glassner of the San Francisco SPCA. I hope you'll
cross-post it. If you do, please keep his name attached to it. :-)
Breed Ban IQ Test
1. If you were the sheriff in your town and you learned that Toyotas were
disproportionally involved in more accidents than any other model, would you
(a) ban Toyotas and confiscate the Toyota of anyone caught driving one,
or
(b) arrest the drivers responsible for those accidents?
2. Which course of action in Question 1 do you think would
(a) inconvenience the fewest number of people,
(b) be the more efficient use of taxpayer dollars,
and (c) be more effective in preventing future accidents involving Toyotas?
3. If your answer to Question 1 was (a) -- ban Toyotas -- and the sheriff's
department learned that, by a statistical quirk, drivers of confiscated
Toyotas were perpetrating further accidents by driving, say, Hondas, would you
then ban Hondas? If not, why not?
4. If your answer to Question 3 was, "Ban Hondas, too, dammit, something HAS
to be done," then would you propose a ban on ALL car models with names
ending in "a," such as Kias and Mazdas, reasoning that all these brands are
pretty
much made for the same purpose? If not, why not? If so, how would you deal
with car brands that end in the SOUND of "a," such as Chevrolet?
5. Are you beginning to understand
(a) that because most of the tens of millions of pet dogs are NOT
registered, "breed" cannot be defined in a meaningful way; (b) that miscreants
employ
pit bulls, German shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Akitas, Great Danes --
that is, whichever dog is handy -- as personal tools of terrorism; (c) that
law
enforcement authorities could
waste inordinate amounts of time (and, therefore, taxpayer dollars) policing
a breed ban, adding to their jobs a task perhaps even more meaningless than
enforcing
jaywalking laws; (d) that the people most likely affected by a breed ban --
that is,
those inconvenienced, harassed and likely to suffer damage -- are the 99.9%
majority of utterly innocent dogs and people; and (e), most important, that
breed bans do ESSENTIALLY NOTHING to address the real problem: Human
scumbags who abuse animals?
Key: If your answer to any part of Question 5 is "no," I'm afraid you have
flunked. Please go back and reconsider your responses. Hint: The answer
to the question, "What shall we do about the bank robber who got away on a
bicycle?" is not: Ban bicycles.
Real answer: If your dog hurts someone, you -- not the dog -- should be
responsible. Anti-cruelty and anti-dog-fighting laws already exist.
Tell your mayor, and city or county or provincial council to up the current
penalties, and insist that judges enforce those penalties against lawbreakers.
Test created by Paul Glassner, SF/SPCA
Posted to ShowPem by Nancy Smith, Pinafore OES and PWC
Betty Johnson
Tintagel
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