> BREED BAN IQ TEST
>
> 1. If you were the sheriff in your town and you learned that Toyotas
> were disproportionately 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 bred 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, harrassed 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, San Francisco SPCA
>
> Permission to reprint is granted by North Carolina Responsible Animal
> Owners Alliance
> This article was created by Paul Glassner of the San Francisco SPCA.
> Please keep his name attached to any reprints.
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