Highlights: In a bizarre turn of events last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he would ban American XL bullies, a type of pit bull-shaped dog that had recently been implicated in a number of violent and sometimes deadly attacks.
XL bullies are perceived to be dangerous — but is that really rooted in reality?
A pitbull isn’t even a breed of dog. Grouping them all together as a breed is like grouping together all dogs considered hounds. It’s an umbrella term for the American pit bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, American bulldog, Boston terrier, Boxer, Bull terrier, Bullmastiff, English bulldog, French bulldog, and Staffordshire bull terrier.
So essentially statistics on pitbull bites are either completely flawed, or just flat out wrong.
Vox did a very nice piece on pitbull stigma that changed my mind about them.
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70% of fatal bites are by pitbulls, but no where near 70% of dogs are pitbulls. Pits are roughly 6% of dogs.
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Don’t bring racism into this, this has nothing to do with racism or people.
And yes, per capita pitbulls do account for far more fatal attacks compared to other breeds.
And my goodness, you’re actually linking to pitbullinfo, hahahaha. I already did a full teardown of that idiotic site, and its inability to actually read scientific papers with another lemmier. It’s such a massive crap pile of propaganda, trying to disguise itself as a reliable source.
Every paper they list in their sources either doesn’t say what they claim it does, or says literally the exact opposite. It’s hilarious how bad that site is, and I can’t believe anyone falls for it.
Breed specific bans are about racism.
I recall one advocate I think from New Jersey who said the quiet part out loud about banning pitbulls: “we just don’t want these kind of people around here.”
Hmmm.
All the pitbulls I know are owned by white people. I still want that shit breed banned.
It’s not about race, pitbulls are shit dogs and should no longer be bred.
You seem like a shit person to be totally honest. Pretty much everyone I know did a book report on this subject in the 5th grade and realize how fucking dumb breed restrictions were. I guess you were sick that day.
Because I think the breed responsible for the vast majority of fatal dog attacks is a shit breed?
I think you’re a shit person for supporting such a shit breed.