Children Need Pit Bulls: A Picture Book

[DirkGently]

211. What do you think about the fact

... that all these Pit Bulls Are Killing Machines stories date only about as far back as the 1980s?

Did Teddy Roosevelt somehow just get lucky in not being eaten by his pit bull?

Also, your "canard" comment is a canard. The misidentification and breed bias has been documented by the CDC.

You also deliberately dodged the point. Several small dog breeds ARE typically more aggressive than others. So, the "canard" that there's something horrifically aggressive about Pits is the real one. You can make the point that it "matters less" when a small dog attacks (excepting the occasional child-maiming Dachschund or what have you), but any big dog gone awry will hurt someone worse than a small one. A 140-lb Rottweiler is vastly more capable of damage than kind of bull dog, but they're expensive, and simply less common.

Is it just too complicated to grasp that this *group of breeds and mixes* has simply become more popular with bad breeders, those wanting a dangerous dog to boost their own ego, and general idiots? Taking the three distinct breeds lumped together as Pits, with all the mixes and misnomers, and you easily have the largest pool of large, *potentially* dangerous dogs on the planet.

Not really a mystery.

You nor anyone else in the thread has made a case for anything inherently awful about any breed, because there is no such case to be made.