I was driving in my car and National public Radio was having a discussion on the keeping of exotic pets and the necessity of banning ownership of such animals due to the recent chimp attack. NPR as usual leaned toward limiting citizen's rights in order to protect the people from themselves. After a lady mentioned "sensible" efforts to ban dangerous animals such as "non human primates" and yes, constricting snakes, Dave Barker called in. He mentioned his credentials in zoology and at first was treated with respect by the host. He brought up the point that dangerous animals and exotic animals were not one in the same and should not be viewed as the same in the law. He started talking about pythons and mentioned that while some were giant, the majority were small and harmless.He mentioned how many that he estimated were in the US and that the great majority were bred here not captured elsewhere. The host was seemingly horrified and asked why pythons were being bred by anyone. Dave answered that people were breeding for coloration, beauty etc. The host seemed to realize at that point that Dave was not towing the party line and blew him off and rather rudely said that he wanted to let others speak and hung up on him. Dave made a good effort. Thanks, Dave.