I'm confused as to why anyone is trying to claim a breed that was specifically bred for blood sport is a suitable and gentle house pet.
But, hey I have problems with people owning retrievers and yet they have nothing to retrieve, or huskies and no sled to pull, or chow chows they never eat...
I'm confused as to why anyone is trying to claim a breed that was specifically bred for blood sport is a suitable and gentle house pet.
Our 'white trash' neighbors at our old house had a pit bull. The dog was nice as could be to them and their family but when it would get loose [a weekly occurrence] it would try it's hardest to come through our fence to kill our dogs and my firearm cleared my holster a time or two just in case as she was very aggressive towards anybody but her own family. If she was on my property I was prepared to do what was necessary because in a hand to hand fight with the dog I would lose.Unfortunately we have had 5 or 6 get in our yard and they were not gentle dogs. They were straight up aggressive.
Well, I understand your point, but it's not really a valid comparison. The dog is a living thing, and can be influenced by its environment and its owner. A gun is an inanimate object that cannot be "influenced" by much of anything. The gun doesn't care if you're Mother Theresa or Charles Manson.Interesting, a lot of comments here where people talk against pit bulls. If you replaced 'pit bull' with 'AR-15', most of these are the same comments we read on other websites relating to gun control... It's not the dog, it's the owner and the environment the dog was raised in.... Buncha hypocrites.
Jon
Well, I understand your point, but it's not really a valid comparison. The dog is a living thing, and can be influenced by its environment and its owner. A gun is an inanimate object that cannot be "influenced" by much of anything. The gun doesn't care if you're Mother Theresa or Charles Manson.
Interesting, a lot of comments here where people talk against pit bulls. If you replaced 'pit bull' with 'AR-15', most of these are the same comments we read on other websites relating to gun control... It's not the dog, it's the owner and the environment the dog was raised in.... Buncha hypocrites.
Jon
The M16 and AK47 were specifically invented for combat troops yet we have plenty of people who feel they should be available for purchase at the local convenience store to anyone with the disposable income. Semi automatic versions are widely available and hugely popular yet we have some who attempt to label them as assault rifles which are good for nothing but killing people and should be banned in spite of the fact that there are millions of them in this country every year that kill nothing but paper.
Great argument.
I'm just tired of people acting like their dogs are perfect and incapable of exacting harm to anyone. It's an animal, and as such is capable of acting like an animal.
(apply this same statement to mothers of thugs)
I don't disagree with this statement. I take issue with people attempting to demonize a certain breed and make claims which aren't true. It's the same tactic used by the gun grabbers and everyone takes issue with that. If pit bulls didn't exist no one would ever get bitten by one so lets make them not exist. Same BS argument used against guns. Is it true? Technically, yes. Is it realistic and reasonable? Not by a long shot.