According to their owners, no dogs are dangerous. And that's kinda my point here. ALL dogs are dangerous given the wrong circumstances, so lets not argue about it, lets just muzzle them all. I mean why do owners have issue with this? It's for the dogs protection as well as the children. If dog owners were truly sensible, its something they would already do.
ALL people are dangerous, given the wrong circumstances.
I therefore require all humans under 75 to be handcuffed and ball-gagged, for the safety of my children, and all males with internet access to be blindfolded and their hands encased in steel, to guard against paedos.
You can not create a public culture of responsibility... that's just not a practical argument. Muzzling all dogs is. It's simple and 100% effective.
People have already been pretty responsible as a public body. It's only in recent times, with ever-more restrictive and prohibitive laws that responsible behaviour has begun declining.
Muzzling the majority will just **** them off and make them aggressive, in situations where it would never have been a problem.
Muzzling takes away a lot of the dog's natural defenses and limits their ability to be comfortable in their surroundings - This means they will be hyper-sensitive to anything and they'll start perceiving things as a threat, even if it's not, resulting in even more aggression and even more behavioural problems.
But since owners do occasionally suffer from incidents and escapes at home too, presumably your law would require every dog to be muzzled at all times, for the entirety of it's life?
Ridiculing practical solutions is not in itself a solution. Is that all you have?
When it's not a viable solution, it will be ridiculed.
Muzzling laws sound all good and well, but what sort of people do you think are blatantly going to disobey them?
Who do you think is going to enforce the new laws, and how much do you imagine it will cost?
Most dogs won't have the ability to tear your arm off either if they do object
Anything around 10kg or more can tear out your throat, or rip out an artery. For many children in the death statistics, the dogs were even smaller.
A big dog with a muzzle on could still do plenty of damage with its claws (or even just its weight); and doesn't even need to be aggressive to do so, a 40kg dog jumping on a toddler isn't going to end well, even if it's only trying to play a bit too boisterously.
For the record, a 12kg Border Collie would be more than enough to do lethal damage under the same circumstances.