> See, if they get a dog in that's *not* chipped they can be pretty
> sure it's a stray with no owner

Well, yes, but they can do exactly that at present with dogs that
are _supposed_ to wear a collar and tag

Now, people are _supposed_ to have travel documents. But they
deliberately lose them (to become no-fixed-abode refugees), have
forged ones, get smuggled across borders in containers then live
in the underworld of the immigrant societies, and so on. Even if you
could get people chipped, it wouldn't be too long before a way is
found around it. Wouldn't be too much of a procedure to remove
the govt chip and stick in a counterfeit Chinese one, or none at all

As usual, the honest would play by the rules, and pay for the
privilege. The dishonest couldn't give a crap. Same with guns. It's
a ridiculous premise to licence owners or guns to keep them out
of the hands of crims. Crims don't care. It's just another way for
a govt to extract money out of people who do

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