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Treat dogs like guns. People need to get a license (unless it's in a rural area I guess) to own one and demonstrate that they would be good dog owners, and provide evidence of training or dog gets confiscated.
Heh.
Over here in the States, that'd entail a constitutional right to own as many dogs as you want and take them around with you -- though some states would require a license if you wanted to conceal the dog on your person.
I just saw an article the other day on how some place in the UK was banning people from walking more than six dogs at once because they considered doing so dangerous for other people, that the dogs couldn't be adequately controlled.
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North Somerset.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-66740715
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I'm packing a chihuahua in my back pocket.
In the US that would also mean that someone would set a pack of dogs trained to kill on their school or work place or church or movie theatre every other day and pro-dog politicians would claim that now isn't the time to talk about restricting killer training for dogs right afterwards.
If we did that in the UK only a very small amount of people, usually in Rural areas, with justified reasons would be allowed to own a dog, and only the breed that meets the requirement of the job they want it to do.
So what you're telling me is the vast majority of people are unfit to keep a dog then.
No, you said we should treat them like guns, in the UK very few people are allowed to keep guns so I was highlighting that it's a silly analogy that doesn't work in this country.
Oh boy. If you read what I wrote, you would understand the analogy ends at 'needs a license.' The license depends on 'demonstrate that they would be good dog owners, and provide evidence of training or dog gets confiscated.' People need a license to drive a car, by demonstrating that they would be good car drivers. Use that analogy instead if you like.
Who's paying for and staffing the infrastructure to manage this in our already understaffed and underfunded public sector? There's 12 million dogs already in the UK, not factoring new pet owners. That's a huge undertaking. Easier to ban the breeds that are going to cause the most issues if not properly trained and managed than make all pet ownera have to be licensed.