Wake up and Smell the Coffee.. an Open Letter From Jason Mann to Supporters of Breed Specific Legislation
August 4th, 2006
Wake up and Smell the Coffee.. an Open Letter From Jason Mann to Supporters of Breed Specific Legislation
Friday, August 4th 2006
Dear Breed Specific Legislation supporter,
I would like to invite you to wake up and smell the coffee and realize your attempts to ban specific breeds of dogs are ineffective, unconstitutional, ignorant, and based on empty data and deception.
Breed specific legislation, like picking your nose in public, is an embarrassment to the intelligence of our nation.
No data suggests one breed is more dangerous than another and the fact this data does not exist should be enough to stop the creation of breed specific laws in their tracks. However, not to my surprise the lack of hard data and facts does not seem to matter to a hysterical public nor to an ignorant governing body that only cares about the majority vote to keep them in office.
Law makers should be ashamed to show their faces in public as supporters of these laws and you should be ashamed to do so as well.
When is it okay to take someone’s rights away from them and deny them their freedom?
When is it okay to tell someone they can not have a specific breed of dog in their home because you do not feel “safe” as a result?
Your argument that you, like me, have a right to feel safe in your own community and that breed specific laws will allow you to feel secure is as empty as a starving man’s stomach.
Your right to feel safe is no more important than my right to own a specific breed of canine and have them in my home.
Your right to feel safe does not override or rule out my right to feel safe from your strong arm tactics to take my freedom of choice away.
Every year millions of people are bitten by dogs. How many of them are American Pit Bull Terriers or similar breeds also referred to as, “Pit Bulls?” You don’t know and you will never know because statistical data to support your argument does not exist.
Data is twisted and guesstimated to encourage your arguments validity. Even the Central for Disease Control refuses to allow their own data to be used in court because it is misrepresented as somehow showing certain breeds are more likely to bite than others.
When the office that collected the data says it is not valid enough to warrant such drastic laws you would think that would be enough to stop the use of these outdated incomplete stats to create these laws.
Unfortunately, it seems the people and the organizations that support these laws are not phased by the hard facts these laws are ineffective and only serve to take the lives of well mannered dogs and steal the responsible owners right to have those dogs in their lives.
In conclusion
Taking someones dog away because it belongs to a certain breed of dog is going to open the door to having all companion dogs taken away. Something the animal rights groups like the PETA would love to see occur.
No dog breed will be safe in the end. These laws will continue to spread from breed to breed, city to city, state to state until we are a nation without canine companions.
If you think that is untrue you simply have to look to countries like Italy that have included Border Collies and Corgi Terriers on their breed ban lists. It is a vicious cycle that will continue without recourse.
I will meet you on the streets and I will speak my mind and I will make my voice heard and I along with the thousands of others like me will put an end to your tyranny.
Signed,
Jason Mann
Owner – Top Dog K9 Training Solutions
Advocate for the American Pit Bull Terrier
Professional Canine Instructor and Behaviorist
Owner – http://www.PitBullLovers.com
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