That bill just added stiffer penalties it didn’t give it a different crime designation and it only added 6 years to the penalties already present on the state level here in Florida. Point is your facts still aren’t accurate.

Matter of fact it only adds those penalties in the situation that an “Animal Crushing Video” is made did you not even take the time to read the actual bill???!!!

Here my last hand out (i’m not the government after all) have a link!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/724/text

That’s to the actual bill it’s pretty short not to tough to read.

“Animal abuse (cruelty) is only a first degree MISDEMEANOR”

WRONG.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/politics/trump-animal-cruelty-bill.html

” You come back with made up stuff about “drug dealers, rapists, and murders” being what, free to roam around or something (you are a little incoherent there)”

Look at the front page of North Escambia.com to see plenty of this.

“Either you are to lazy or to busy to get real information so I am done with this conversation.”
Nice try.

@Sybil
“I am a therapist and it would appear many on here are misguided and need professional help and educated”

And I’m a Russian Billionaire. I made my money in selling baloney to Democrats. They still buy it by the square ton.

I gave you actual facts ie: child abuse is a Third degree felony in Florida and Animal abuse (cruelty) is only a first degree MISDEMEANOR. You come back with made up stuff about “drug dealers, rapists, and murders” being what, free to roam around or something (you are a little incoherent there). Seems that you cannot back your claims up with facts so you make things up. Either you are to lazy or to busy to get real information so I am done with this conversation.

Here have some links if you are not to lazy you can learn the truth instead of making it up.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0800-0899/0828/Sections/0828.12.html

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0800-0899/0827/Sections/0827.03.html

Folks who abuse animals get off with a slap on the wrist? That’s news to me. Seems I hear more about drug dealers, rapists and murderers walking the streets because “he’s really a good boy” or “she has potential” while the book gets thrown at the person who couldn’t afford to feed their neighbor’s horse. I’m not in the position at the moment to cite specific case law to you, but, we live in a screwed up society when it’s prison and an enormous fine to shoot a predator hawk or eagle but a woman can walk into an abortion clinic to have her unwanted child ripped to pieces because that’s “her right to choose”.

You say “is one greater than the other” and then indicate that they are the same. Abuse of humanity is ALWAYS worse. People have more value than other living creatures. It doesn’t mean that other living creatures shouldn’t be protected. They are, and they should be.

You’ve got it all mixed up there. The penalties this woman will face for harming this innocent baby will be severe. She will face prison time and a slew of other things such as counseling before she can see this child again, if she ever gets to see the baby again.

However if she were to have set a kitten, puppy, horse or any other animal on fire and watched it burn she would have been fined at most and free to go and get another animal and harm it as well. The penalties for animal abuse are almost none because animals are treated as property like your luggage not as sentient beings that deserve our protection.

The reason there seems to be more outrage over animal abuse then child abuse isn’t because anyone thinks one is worse then the other it’s because there is an entire Government Agency that deals with child abuse and tries their best to insure the safety of children. Animals have no-one but you and I.

Is one less then or greater then the other? No of course not no child or animal should ever be abused. This shouldn’t even need to be said yet here we are because you want to compare which abuse is worse and that my fellow citizen is why I think you need help. All abuse is bad.

Why does my comment bother you so much? The reason I made it in the first place is because society places so much emphasis on pets and animals and there’s always an outrage over animal abuse, but it seems like nobody hardly cares about precious babies. Well, I DO! Of course I don’t want animals abused, that’s an acenine inference to make. And if you’re more outraged by animal abuse than human abuse, like I’m afraid many people in our society today are, then YOU might should get some counseling!