No. I brought up ALL bite/attack/fatality categories. You focused on one in bad faith, like my argument changes anyway. But you even failed to attack just the fatality category anyway. Look, let me drag up one of my old reddit posts. I have full sources and citations… I’ve even done an analysis of attack per breed per capita. Ultimately IIRC pitbulls are overrepresented by about 6x the next worst breed. You don’t get that high of a spike unless there’s actually a problem with the breed itself.
Edit: Adding content from Reddit I’ve written before…
If that were the case, I’d expect that per capita pit bulls would then be equal to all other breeds or at the base minimum to represent their population, so if a pit population is 10% of all dogs, then they should account for 10% of all dog-related deaths. This is a little facetious though as little Pomeranians aren’t going to kill anyone… So let’s look at a number of breeds to determine what could be a valid number…
So how can we account for pitbulls accounting for 7.4% of all dogs and commiting ~66% of all dog-based fatalities when…
Rottweilers are 2.4% of dog population and commit about 10% of the murders recorded.
German Shepherd are 8.5% of the dog population accounting for ~5% murders. (beating population value even though they’re large dogs)
Huskies are 2.3% of the population and account for 3% of the murders
How about a dog bred to kill bears??? Akitas… 0.4% of the population… doesn’t even come up on the murder table… so less than 0.5%…
How can we account for this massive disparity? You really think that ONLY pitbulls are mistreated, untrained, and raised improperly? So all Rottweilers and German Shepherds are trained perfectly? Yes, I can agree with you that an abused dog will absolutely lash out and hurt humans… I cannot agree with you that this is the deciding or only factor. Otherwise we would have seen it with other breeds as bad owners are everywhere. Breeds like Akita’s show that you can be breed for fighting and not be aggressive towards humans. Pit bulls simply were bred for aggression, you can’t always train it out of them, and it only takes one slip.
Source for fatality rates: https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-multi-year-fatality-report-2005-2017.php
Source for population percentage rates: https://www.animals24-7.org/2021/07/07/dog-breed-census-2021-labs-hounds-top-list-pit-bulls-come-in-third/
No. I brought up ALL bite/attack/fatality categories. You focused on one in bad faith, like my argument changes anyway. But you even failed to attack just the fatality category anyway. Look, let me drag up one of my old reddit posts. I have full sources and citations… I’ve even done an analysis of attack per breed per capita. Ultimately IIRC pitbulls are overrepresented by about 6x the next worst breed. You don’t get that high of a spike unless there’s actually a problem with the breed itself.
Edit: Adding content from Reddit I’ve written before…
Edit2: If you want to read about how many events are happening regularly… https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/
While many posts are griping about dumb idiots who treat pitbulls like gods… Every day there’s many posts outlining new attacks… and they maintain actual listings of attacks where humans are hurt or killed… and events where pitbulls kill animals. Some examples being https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/tuyivl/april_2022_list_of_pit_bull_attacksfatalities/
https://old.reddit.com/r/BanPitBulls/comments/102buat/january_2023_list_of_pit_bull_attacksfatalities/
If you can find me ANY other breed that is ANYWHERE near this bad… I’ll delete my entire lemmy instance.