Narrow minded or am I asking too much?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

I don't think anyone was claiming to be a scientist. No one is trying to make anyone hand over their animals for study. They only asked. And the fear that this would give cause to damage the hobby because E. coli is scary then I strongly encourage you to read up on what is lurking on your keyboard right now, your cellphone, door handles, any living thing in your house, the air you are breathing. All of it full of dangerous microbes with the potential to kill. All of it documented. We don't outlaw cats for carrying germs. If we outlawed everything that had the potential to harm us we would all be dead. If you think they would try to outlaw BPs for having E. coli in their mouths then I think they have some bigger problems to tackle first. Like cows, they're just chock full of E. coli, yet I have easy access to their meat. So they would first be working on outlawing these deadly organisms in our grocery stores before focusing down on a select group.

Seems to me that you are not grasping what has been going on those past couple of years, cat owners do not have a target on their back (well not yet) snake owners do because right now they are HSUS easiest target. Right now in case you are not aware there are people who want to take away your right to own reptiles, no one want to take away your phone or your keyboard

You are comparing apple and oranges here.