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Some comments here on Mayor Gavin Newsome's suggestion to add dog regulations after a pit bull killed a child in San Francisco.

As he's said before, he thinks a healthy dose of "paternalism" is in order. Naturally the problem here is the dogs and how their managed, not the owner. The solution to them seems obvious: regulate the dogs. It's like regulating guns or insurance companies or hamburgers or other potentially harmful things.

I know it's a crazy idea, but if a dog owner willfully lets his/her viscious dog run wild or be loose enough to harm a neighbor, there are laws in place to punish them for their crime. "Manslaughter" comes to mind for more extreme cases.

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