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Bernt's avatar

I feel like the coverage of this controversy highlights why I couldn't live in Britain. Too easily excitable and stuffy. A lot to admire Europe for, but ultimately glad to be in America

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grufinprog's avatar

It’s definitely a UK va US kind of issue. Laws are basically optional in most of the US in a way Europeans can’t really appreciate but that regularly demonstrates how futile more laws often are [here].

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Midwest Molly's avatar

I'm more on team USA, mainly because I can't believe that people in the UK have police come to their homes over tweets.

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MyrtleT's avatar

I haven't thought of it that way. Could you develop what you mean by that ?

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Tyler's avatar

I can't speak for another poster but I think he's getting at this: in the US, we are generally reluctant to ban anything. We bend over backwards not to infringe on personal freedom or property rights.

Witness the debates over gun rights. We have a libertarian streak that may not be as prevalent in Europe. I can't imagine any US jurisdiction successfully enacting a breed ban, no matter how many attacks occur

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grufinprog's avatar

America is big, in most places there aren’t very many cops, and as a result people’s first thought is not “is this illegal and will I get caught?” Speaking in broad strokes.

State jurisdictions also vary widely and so a nationwide campaign is much more difficult - you don’t just need to persuade a majority, you need to persuade a majority in each state.

It has pros and cons, I’m personally quite pro-pit-ban in theory, but it would be pointless to pursue a nationwide campaign for a ban even if you planned to go state by state, because there will always be holdouts. In the UK you can be one and done.

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pseudonyms for fun and safety's avatar

Most Brits are glad they don’t live in America, you know, what with the news stories we see about you.

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grufinprog's avatar

I didn’t say it was a uniformly good thing! Just that it’s very different. But luckily I don’t think the UK is deporting people to the US by force so you should be okay.

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Bernt's avatar

Not surprised. Figure there's a reason you all don't leave your immaculate little island. It's a big scary world out there

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