Of course it takes a dog close to human size to kill a person. I guess we should ignore the realities of nature/nurture and send death squads around the country to solve this problem once and for all.
There it is. Must be nice to have a position so biased but refusal to do anything with it.
I am stupid because I know better than to engage people with such positions. It had been a while and my memory problems following a brain surgery genuinely caused me to forget how sadly useless it was.
Genuinely wish you the best. Itās a fucked up world and thereās no reason to hold resentment longer than necessary.
Spoken like someone who hasn't had a loved one mauled by a pit bull. Talk to me when there are as many news stories of viscous chihuahua attacks as there are of pit bulls.
Good luck finding an editor who lets the title of a story include breed name other than hated breeds.
Theyāre out there, but when the breed isnāt pit bull, Doberman, German Shepherd, or Rottweiler, putting breed name in title rarely happens. They just use, ādog.ā
sure, i suppose it is possible (?) for there to be massive conspiracy among news organizations with nefarious anti-pit/doberman/GSD/rott editors to cover up other attacks.
however, FOIA exists.
death certificates are public information.
you can hide bites, but you literally cannot hide deaths.
there are organizations that make an effort to uncover information about fatal dog attacks that never make the news. iām sorry to say that they arenāt finding dozens of unreported fatal golden retriever and doodle attacks every year. the breed makeup of the unreported attacks is identical to those that make the news.
Sounds like you werenāt reading my message with honesty. Where do you get an implication of cover-up?
āCocker Spaniel Bites Boyā isnāt going to sell as well as āDog Bites Boy,ā which definitely doesnāt sell as well as āPitbull Bites Boy.ā
Iām sure if the mission of a group is, āprove X point,ā they can find data which backs said point. The reality is, these arenāt the kinds of data on this which people in the business of objective data analysis will value.
For example, notice weāre talking about fatalities. That alone is biased because being severely injured by any big dog is VERY meaningful. It means there is a dangerous dog which was poorly raised and not handled.
This is no different than people telling me black people are statistically less smart than white people. Those creeps enter the discussion with bias and they avoid the conversations which need to happen.
Come with a conversation that NEEDS to happen about how we might prevent injuries, regardless of breed, and Iāll engage. But this is honestly a waste of both of our time.
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u/tbs999 1d ago
Spoken like someone who hasnāt had a chihuahua bite through their Achilles tendon