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Listen NGL I like you as a poster but I can t agree with the implications and I find your observation fallacious. Terrible events like a crippling dog attack are always by definition super low. But then why go for that one breed which outcripples humans and especially children by a wide margin? Would you drive the one care whoses breakes stop working 1/100000 times, if that car has 5x more accidents by malfunctionning breaks than other brands? Why the fuck would you want that brand in the first place? The very reason why people buy pits IS because they are dangerous dogs.
The horror stories just don't match my experiences with the dogs. I have one and he's a good dog and hasn't given me any cause for concern. Hed be gone in an instant if he did. I'm white trash and have been around tons of them and almost all of them were good boys.
I feel like anything can be dangerous but it doesn't always have to be and most things are a case by case basis. I feel like a lot of common things no one thinks twice about are statistically way more dangerous.
Like with your car and the breaks ....any car can have any number of catastrophic failures and even though your car is the most likely thing you do every day that might lead to your death no one calls to ban them or is entertaining the idea of not driving
I love my damn dog. And I'm a hound kind of person and was not in the market for him at all but he needed a home. Not cuz he did anything bad but because he couldn't live in an apartment in a cage all day so I took him in so that he didnt end up in the pound. I'm aware that he's big and powerful. But he's also well behaved and hasn't shown me any cause for concern. And I'm not immune to the pitbull hysteria I watch him like a hawk for any signs that he's the monster people say he is.
The pitbull thing just seems like over blown hysteria to me and it doesn't quite line up with what I've seen first hand. As you said it's rare. It's like school shootings ....the media loves that shit and so it gets a ton of play and I think it's lead people to think it's a much bigger problem than it is.
And this is why I wish I had that one piece of information we never ever get ...was the dog that attacked a person showing signs of it long before it happened or is it really just a random thing pitbulls just do. I suspect the warning signs were there in almost every case but I can't prove it. Some dogs are just bad. But most of the time bad dogs are created.
I just honestly don't think they are that dangerous I'm not posting in bad faith or being facetious but it is personal to me due to having one.
