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In reply to the discussion: Children Need Pit Bulls: A Picture Book [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)about your chosen target, but other horrific anecdotes are irrelevant? How does that work?
You keep repeating the gory details as though it justifies a leap from the specific to the general, but it doesn't. All kinds of dogs have done all kinds of damage.
You don't have a case that there is a type of dog you can look at and identify as more likely to do such a thing.
And how do you not get that bad owners self-select for certain types of dogs deemed scary by people with your exact point of view?
So again, I have to ask, what is this pattern you claim supposed to mean?
You really seem to want to say there is something wrong with a "type" of dog, which again, is apparently just any dog someone calls a "pit bull."
If you want to try to prove there's something inherently savage about American Staffordshire Terriers, American Pit Bulls, or Bull Terriers, please proceed.
Again, what is the conclusion you are trying to put forward? Should we ban bull terrier-type dogs? Are all dogs that have that flat head and that barrel chest lurking killers?
Trying to work with you here.