PETA will do anything for attention and it's far easier to chip away at their end goal, no household pets, by focusing on the scaly and scary vs cute and cuddly. It's fairly easy to convince your average dog or cat owner that reptiles are "bad" or unsuitable pets. Can't get laws passed against keeping them? Go after everything else, the breeders, owners, caging manufactures, feeder breeder companies, etc. Make them too expensive to keep or too hard to find and less people will keep them.