Surrounded by 8 pit pulls today, I barely escaped with my life

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174. Hey, feel free not read my essays if it's too

much trouble for you. I don't have a gun to your head, sunshine.

So you mean the number of bites, maiming and fatalities against the sheer number of pit bulls you mean? Still small compared to the millions running around every single day. I never said dogs were people however we are all animals at the end of the day, we just happen to normally be on top of the food chain. Scientists claim we evolved from monkeys.

I don't care if you disagree with me on the discrimination or not. I said you were more than welcome to disagree. Comments like yours normally keep me from using how I "feel" as a legitimate argument in this debate because I know not everyone will take that seriously and some just love to pick on people's feelings as if that makes their point more valid. If I talk about my own experiences with pit bulls, it's anecdotal so it doesn't count (however those against pit bulls are no less anecdotal than my experiences either). If I point to the numbers of fatalities against how many pit bulls there are, it's one of the rarest ways to die. Relativity never seems to matter or taken into consideration on this topic somehow.

Do pit bulls attack? Yes, but most do not. I'm sorry if that doesn't fit your narrative but it's a fact. Do other breeds attack? Yes, but most in every breed do not either. That is also a fact. When I lived in a country where no pit bulls were allowed to breathe, what do you think the epidemic was there? Dobermans, Rottweilers and the occasional German Shepherd. Do the majority of those dogs maim and kill people? No, it was the same ignorance as here, the only difference were the breeds involved. A tiny percentage that makes some believe all of those breeds of dog pose a significant danger.

The blame falls significantly on the owners most of the time. You think banning a whole breed is going to stop that? No, they'll just abuse other breeds who then become maligned and then the bans come out. Where does it stop? You deal with the source of the problem. Oh but it's too much effort to deal with the source, it's easier just to ban the dogs. Lazy is all I have to say about that solution and you'll be back at square one with another breed. It matters to me if a dog hurts a person, but I'm not going to be so closed minded to believe it's just the breed. Do you even realize that pit bull "type" dogs are most commonly mixed with goodness only knows what because people don't do the responsible thing and spay and neuter their dogs? So is it the mixes, which are not even a pure breed but a mutt, or a pure bred dog in the pit bull family? Or is it that any dog, with any amount of pit bull terrier are also to blame too?

When I was a child, Dobermans and Rottweilers were the popular dogs to be maligned as "dangerous". 30 years later, the more things change, the more they stay the same and the only thing that's really changed, is the breed. The bullshit still stands.