I knew this point would come up. It is true that all medication, steroids and drugs can affect other people as well beside the user. But the freedom to use these chemicals is a greater benefit than the cost of the negative sides (also there is more survaillance but I'll come to that in a moment).
I'm not attacking pit bulls here per se. Just dogs that are big and/or are bred to kill. Society has put strict limits on what we can have as pets. Dogs are the only kind of pet where 200 pound animal with a killer instict is a-ok. I think there should be a limit. Throw all the aggressive breeds the fuck out a here and put a weight limit. 120 pounds sounds good.
Part of why I'm so against these kind of dogs is the culture. If a drunk man threatens me, I can call the cops and they take him away. But if a dog threatens me, there is probably nothing anyone can do about it. We can't carry a knife or other weapons with us to protect us. When it's dog vs man, somehow the man is an outlaw. Dog has all the rights, until it kills someone of course.
pits aren't bred to be aggressive towards humans (absolute, 100% fact, call your local AKC/UKC representative if you don't believe me),and are actually bred for human friendliness and loyalty above all else. If you gave labradors and beagles to blacks and latinos, the end result would be the same as we have with pit bulls currently (I do volunteer work with dogs in oakland california, 80% of black people will make a nice dog mean, and somehow get puppies to be mean. They're just stupid fucking people). This is the reason that "aggressive" dog bans in many countries and cities around the world have been overturned, the same trashy people got dogs, and regardless of breed, their dogs attacked people. The cities/counties/countries thought they were getting rid of the cause of the problem (perceived as the dogs) and the problem didn't go away because the real cause (people) was still able to own and abuse animals.
Before 1980 or so, pits were rarely, if ever, involved in dog attacks. Then came the glamorization of ghetto culture (thank you, black and brown people), and rappers started talking about feeding their pits gun powder (yup, i have actually seen this, thank you, biggie), how tough their dogs were, etc etc etc...its all stupid people have. No education, no intelligence, no money, but they gawt dem rims, and duh biggest, baddest dog, an' duh eeyyce on dey necks... and that takes us to today. Go look at old American propaganda art, the Pit was a source of American pride.
