"Her name is pancake and she's a sweetheart"
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Yup. Most of that is true. Now, is it possible to apply those regulations to Pitbull's, or is there literally no other option besides mass sterilization?
Because that's my problem. People are acting like there is no justifiable reason to allow anyone, even zoos, to own or maintain Pitbulls because they must be killed, because they are literally uncontrollable murder machines.
That position, one that Matt Walsh advocates, is so fucking retarded it can't be allowed to be stated in public without being challenged. Yes, it is an aggressive animal. Yes, you have to be a responsible dog owner. Yes, if you would like to introduce additional requirements for ownership that's fine. But outright banning and then killing off the entire breed is fucking stupid and always will be. I will remind you that we have laws on the books where people who own exotic animals can be personally held liable for any and all damages an escaped animal may cause, regardless of whether it was an accidental escape or not.
Not really, because most of those regulations apply because they cover the entire animal, rather than a specific breed of it. If we started applying them then we would quickly become "one drop rule" crusaders looking for the exact moment Pitbull genes qualify in the legion of mutts running around. Whereas a cobra is a fucking cobra almost 100% of the time. And if a particularly dangerous specimen showed up, we wouldn't even discuss just ending it.
Dogs have their purposes, of which pitbulls fail nearly every one due to their dangerous nature. They aren't natural animals who play an environmental role, so they don't get the same protections that almost everything you listed do in terms of "we need them regardless of danger" like bears or wolves.
The only thing they are good at is violence, and that benefit isn't strong enough to outweigh the risk their existence brings. This isn't a police dog breed that can be trained to be an efficient machine with strength and authority, its an unstable, emotional breed. Which is why people go after it instead of things like rottweilers and the like who have similar dangers.
We literally played God and created them. The least we can do is fix our mistakes. Again, these are not naturally occurring animals. We are going down the road of the new Jurassic Park movies where we have to let the violent monsters live because "well they are alive so!!" now.
And if this was mostly a problem of them getting out and fucking up people's property that might be an issue. Something money can fix.
People get particular about pitbulls because they keep killing children. Something a guy going "my bad bro, here's 10k for my messup" is more of a slap in the face instead of a makegood.