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Originally Posted by spooky181
I bet you haven't been bitten by pitbulls cause your very wary around them. I have been bitten by dozens of the mainstream type of dogs but never anything that required attention. If you or I ever do get bitten by a pitbull we will most likely end up in hospital... 
One thing I have noticed though is that generally the dangerous breeds are much better behaved and diciplined than other breeds, but when they do snap they can kill. |
Spooky, no one denies the damage that
reactive Pit bulls are capable of. Those of us who understand that it's the owners, not the dogs... want something to be done about these bad owners. That's what people should be advocating about. If you ban the breed, the bad people will still find a way to own one. Or they will find another breed to abuse if they can't. Just like they would if you banned guns. And the good owners and pit pulls will be punished. What are they gonna do.. ban labrador/pit bull mixes, or any dog resembling a Pit bull?
Here's a good example of what breed banning acommplishes... In 1989, Denver, Colorado banned the Pit bull breed. The amount of Pit bull attacks in Denver has not declined since this date. It accomplished nothing. People still own Pit bulls in Denver illegally. In 2004 Colorado passed a law that prohibits the banning of specific breeds. But in Denver they still hunt down Pit bulls and take them away from innocent families. Many people moved out of the city because of this.
They often get the breed of dog wrong in these sensational news stories of pit bull attacks. I remember the media getting it entirely wrong with the Ving Rhames case where his groundskeeper was found dead. Rhames's dogs were actually a Mastiff type and a Bulldog. Not Pit bulls. And they didn't kill the person either like originall reported. I think that case was a great example how the media is incredibly quick to blame pit bulls. They didn't even the get correct dog breed on initial reporting. This is common though.
AaronM says he's seen good pit bulls owned by good owners act just as bad. Huh? It NEVER happens. Every single story I see in the news of Pit bull attacks it's always the tie out dogs that broke loose, never walked, never trained, etc. In a rare case, if a otherwise well behaved dog has cancer, or some other serious disease, he may act out. But this can happen to ANY dog. And good dogs will bite too if you corner them... If you leave them with no other choice.