this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Ban PitBulls

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Dog bite severity varies by the breed of dog, and studies have found that pit bull–type dogs have both a high rate of reported bites and a high rate of severe injuries, compared to other non–pit bull–type dogs.

Pit bull–type dogs are extensively used in the United States for dogfighting, a practice that has continued despite being outlawed. Several nations and jurisdictions restrict the ownership of pit bull–type dogs through breed-specific legislation.

Rules:

  1. Keep it civil.

  2. No advocating for violence.

  3. The sole goal for this comm is to ban pit bulls from every jurisdiction and to treat the remaining ones with respect while every caretaker follows the required safety precautions to keep everyone safe. Dog breeds with documented health issues should also be stopped from being forcibly bred into this world.

  4. No pit bull advocate gaslighting. Though good faith debates are allowed.

Links:

Dogsbite.org is routinely slandered by the pro-pit lobby, but the site is informative and its data collection procedures are transparent and well-documented.

Pit Nutter Bingo Cliched excuses and problematic arguments pit nutters use.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Please show me the stats on Labs snapping on kids.

And please remove "kissing attacks" from your data. I'll wait.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I grew up around the corner from a guy who had a viscious black lab, my neighbour had to take a baseball bat to school because of it, and he even hit it in the head at one point. Any animal can be vicious. Its just pitbulls have large strong mouths. Thats why they are trained to be violent, and because of this fact stats are skewed.

Now show me a statistic of bites from pitbulls when raised fron pups vs adopted