This is Utterly Wrong

[pisces]

How do you decide who's responsible enough to own a dangerous dog and who isn't?

Surely prevention is better than an after cure?

[daviejones]

How do you decide who's responsible enough to own a dangerous dog and who isn't?

Surely prevention is better than an after cure?

Banning users from owning dogs is impossible to police...but I do agree with the muzzling of big dogs in public though!!

[pisces]

Banning users from owning dogs is impossible to police...but I do agree with the muzzling of big dogs in public though!!

Banning people from taking drugs doesn't stop them. It doesn't mean we should allow them

[richard-af]

How do you decide who's responsible enough to own a dangerous dog and who isn't?

Surely prevention is better than an after cure?

Agreed. I like dogs and have owned a couple.


The arguement for dogs and pens being of the same lethality is similar to the U.S. National Rifle Association's age-old saw of, "There's no such thing as a dangerous gun; it's only the person holding it that can be a danger". That "freedom-enshrining" idea sounds a bit less brilliant when a nutter gets hold of a semi-automatic and pays a visit to the local school, etc.

It's when control is no longer there that this sort of phoney liberalism loses all of its credibility.

[Churchill]

Banning users from owning dogs is impossible to police...but I do agree with the muzzling of big dogs in public though!!

Responsible dog ownership.

That is the key phrase. It is not for the government or others to legislate what at root cause is a decision made by an individual.

You own a dog, you're responsible for its and your actions.

End of.

[richard-af]

Responsible dog ownership.

That is the key phrase. It is not for the government or others to legislate what at root cause is a decision made by an individual.

You own a dog, you're responsible for its and your actions.

End of.

Agreed. But the whole point is that Dublin City Council have banned the keeping of certain breeds. They have, I suppose, found that trusting the good folk of Dublin to be responsible has, in some cases, backfired nastily. Same everywhere.

[daviejones]

Banning people from taking drugs doesn't stop them. It doesn't mean we should allow them

I agree, but how do we stop them?

[richard-af]

I agree, but how do we stop them?

We can't.

[Churchill]

I agree, but how do we stop them?

Remove the legislation that prevents these people from taking drugs.

Give them the drugs for free.

If they wish to be self destructive then let them.

Eventually the problem will sort itself out.

Yeah, a few innocent by-standers will be caught in the cross-fire. But hey, how many people die in road accidents every year?

[richard-af]

Remove the legislation that prevents these people from taking drugs.

Give them the drugs for free.

If they wish to be self destructive then let them.

Eventually the problem will sort itself out.

Yeah, a few innocent by-standers will be caught in the cross-fire. But hey, how many people die in road accidents every year?

Not sure about that idea!