Children Need Pit Bulls: A Picture Book

[DirkGently]

180. Buut .. none of your "facts" have held up yet.

Can you still not explain which of the three actual breeds you're talking about, at least?

American Pits?

Bull Terriers?

American Staffordshire Terriers?

Mixed breeds with big heads?

Seriously, when you talk about "pits" are you saying that these three breeds count as one or not?

Can you not acknowledge the impact of biased reporting and the subjective nature of breed identification as documented by the CDC?

Can you not acknowledge that the Pit hysteria is a new phenomenon, just like the hysteria over Shepherds and Dobies and Rottweilers?

You drag out horrific anecdotes of maimed children and imply this is conclusive of something damning, falsely conclude only one kind of dog does that, and acknowledge nothing when I spend all of three minutes finding you a half-dozen examples other, uncriticized breeds tearing off legs and stalking and mauling children.

Do you not understand that the choices of irresponsible people selecting one breed or group or another to torture into aggressive tendencies is the obvious reason so many dangerous "street dogs" fall in a certain pattern?

You don't think, for example, that if all the Staffies, American Pits, and Bull Terriers, which never had any kind of bad rep through the 1980s, for god's sake, in the world disappeared, that dog fighters and street breeders wouldn't just use more Mastiffs and Chow Chows and others?

It's a weirdly racist pattern of logic you're following. Drawing conclusions from anecdotes. Shrugging off counter examples and factual evidence. Eschewing logic for sarcasm and generalization.

It just doesn't make any sense.