Quote Originally Posted by Oroborous View Post
There are plenty of other ways of looking at it.
The bad parts of this bill aren't even that bad. If passed it doesn't say you are a criminal for owning 50 fish in a tank. It's referring to pet stores, and saying they need 24/7 staffing for over 50 animals. And if that means 50 tiny fish, that is pretty silly.
Not for owning the fish, but for not having them staffed 24/7. When I read the law, I didn't see anywhere it talked about it only applying to pet stores. It seemed to me it would apply to everyone.

And perhaps I'm mistaken about this, but I thought a criminal was a person who broke a law. And if this law had been passed as originally written, then anyone who owns 50 fish in a tank and does not have staff caring for those 50 fish 24/7 would be breaking the law, and thus a criminal. The law doesn't have to say "you will be a criminal if you don't do this." It just has to say "you must do this," and then if you don't, you become a criminal.