It's because they're emotional support vehicles for suburban dudes who have an incredibly fragile ego. What they need is a van or a "sensible" SUV or even just y'know a fuckin car but these men are too sensitive and scared to drive one of those so they buy a truck as a family car instead.
Touched a nerve with ya, eh? It's funny you think a Corgi occasionally nipping, which is easily trained out, is somehow equivalent to a mauling by a pitbull.
I get it you're just upset that you own or love pit bills and can't just see how much of a menace they are to other dogs and people. Maybe it's just a coincidence that most of the dogs that snap suddenly on kids are pit mixes.
But I've seen first hand the difference between a pitbull attack and those of other dogs, we all know which we would rather be on the end of. We all know which causes more harm and destruction. Bury your head in the sand, that's fine.
You know damn well we're talking about aggregate numbers and breed specific traits, like being bred to be aggressive. I'm not acting like a single dog is what I'm talking about and your rebuttal of a single dog vs talking about trends and large numbers across the country is disingenuous.
I believe that dog breeds have inherent traits that they are bred for. Yes of course the nature vs nurture argument always comes into play but it's not a coincidence some dogs love water and will naturally point without any training and others won't.
Also that's not even getting into the physical make up of a pit bull. They just are more dangerous by that alone, higher bite force, harder to get them to let go, fat head, big chomps - I think it's irresponsible and morally reprehensible for them to be bred.
Short of mass euthanasia they are not going away but I wholeheartedly believe they shouldn't be rehomed or kept in shelters so I suppose inevitably my belief would lead to them being euthanized instead of ever adopted out.
There is no good solution and I get people have pitbulls that don't attack or harm people but their proclivity for violence is well documented and understood. It's just that people would rather believe their feels over facts and black and white statistics.
The American pitbull is a breed, though there are others.
The dogs are notorious for their violence and literally were bred to fight. If you think a Labrador retriever is naturally a good retriever because it's been bred for those traits it's not exactly hard to see how a dog bred for generations to literally kill for sport might be problematic.
Hey, we elected Trump, I also think the average American blows hard. But I was born here and live here and can't just up and leave in my current circumstances so I just try to do my best to get by.
It's a trying time right now around the world and we're not making it easier for the average person.
Sucks for glasses wearers who are about to be having a lot of blurry conversations when everyone starts to tell everyone to take off their glasses before they talk.
I didn't say they were going to save the world, no more than the USA did or any nation state turned empire.
I do think China will eclipse America when it comes to being in a position of strong global leadership and the hegemonic power on the world stage. The USA seems to be shirking our duties, reshaping and destroying our society's moral fabric, racing towards worse and worse education results and hellbent on making sure our healthcare is broken and our people are fat and dumb.
It's not a winning recipe, even with a military that can dominate.
Every country has its problems and its demons, China is no different and certainly their problems are complex and grand. As far as greater or lesser evils - I'd put the USA and China about on par for all the fucked up stuff we have done the past hundred years and keep doing now.
I'd love to at least visit China sometime - honestly there's so much fascinating history and getting to see a different approach to community building and infrastructure planning would be neat.
It definitely does feel like human life is not valued as much as it should be, can certainly agree there.
Especially here in the USA I get the feeling that we're all just widgets in the grand machination of Capitalism destroying our world. I wish there was more we all could do but the people in power who could help seem intent to burn it all down at this point.
Damn as an American whose frame of reference is, "if someone breaks into my home in the middle of the night and I shoot them dead it's likely going to be called justifiable - period" it's wild to see this.
Like, I'm not saying it's good that we basically have a mentality of "yo if someone comes into your house you can blast em" as a people ... But it's interesting how divergent the views are.
I call people out but I'm also a white guy so I feel somewhat obliged to counteract all the cunts waving confederate flags and being racist bastards.