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The "education" and make owners "behave responsibly" argument. What planet are these people on?

The one greatest argument that dangerous dog breeds defenders make (aside from "that toddler who got ripped to pieces must have done something to the dog becaue Pit bulls never attack people, just other dogs" argument), and which a lot of otherwise intelligent people swallow, is that owners of dogs bred to fight to the death, and owners of 150 lb "manstoppers" just need to be "educated" and "made to behave responsibly".

Who is hoarding the magic fairy-dust that makes people behave responsibly? How can any one believe that an adult can be made to behave a certain way, or that you can educate anyone who doesn't want to be educated, or that there is enough money in the world to "nanny" dog owners into going to good dog-citizen classes, or that there is any responsibility or willingness of taxpayers to pay for all that?

The "education" and "make them take responsiblity" arguments is so unachievable that I have to wonder what planet all the people who use this argument are on. While owners of dangerous breeds are being rounded up and trotted off to good dog citizenship classes once a week, more children are being maimed and killed. Just how is that "responsible"?

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Vancouver Dog Controls bylaws: What the Province newspaper wrote
And what I told the Province that it didn't write...
Re: And what I told the Province that it didn't write...
Why weren't charges laid against the owners of the dogs that savaged Shenica White?
The "education" and make owners "behave responsibly" argument. What planet are these people on?
When will the SPCA start to lobby hard to local governments to prevent dogs like these being bred and sold?

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