• ExLisper@linux.community
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      10 months ago

      This has been said so many times it’s boring: chihuahua with a bad owner never killed anyone.
      Also: would you support mandatory background checks, permits and training for pit bull owners? To make sure that they only go to good owners…

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        10 months ago

        I support educating pet owners, and regulating “puppy mills”.

        Dogs aren’t guns.

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          10 months ago

          Educating and regulating how? Mandatory certificates for pit bull owners? What regulations of “puppy mills” would stop pit bulls from killing people?

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      10 months ago

      That’s not what the data shows though. The vast majority of dog attacks are by pitbulls.

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        10 months ago

        Except the major source everyone cites is one psycho who composes his data exclusively by going through news reports of dog attacks and determining it was a pit bull if any news source called it a pit bull rather than any scientific methodology whatsoever

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          10 months ago

          Super reliable! You know, the same news sources that call every 1-hand bang-bang-thingy a “glock”, a wooden two-hand bang-bang-thingy an AK-47, and a black shovel an Assault-Rifle-15-mall-sweeping-military-style-bump-stock-war-machine assault weapon.

          Yeah I’m sure they’re great at differentiating dog breeds too! XD

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          10 months ago

          What reason would someone have to do that though? Probably was attacked by a pitbull in the past lol

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            10 months ago

            Yes. She tried to run past someone and their dog on a narrow walk without speaking. Turns out running up behind a strange dog and touching it or almost touching it can lead to bad things. Who would have known except literally everyone else on the planet.

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              10 months ago

              Pretty sure that might only happen with a pitbull or Rottweiler. You can’t link me an example of it happening with any other breed.