• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    66 fatalities in 20 years is actually super low. That’s just 3.3 per year when there are probably millions of dogs. How many people were killed by people in that time? This demonstrates how people make wild generalizations from a few anecdotes.

    Rottweilers are also super minimal at just 1.6 per year.

    These numbers are so low as to be statistically insignificant. Many more people are killed by refrigerators each year. They estimate 60 people. Mostly children!!! A person is 20x more likely to be killed by a fridge than a pit bull. Are y’all mad about that too? And the number of fridges keeps growing!!!

    Cops murder about 1000 people every year. Are you mad about that? Are you posting paragraphs about abolishing the police? There are probably far less cops than pit bulls.

    Perhaps most importantly millions of people are murdered by cars every year. It’s a leading murderer of kids (right next to guns). Stop crying about dogs. Fuck cars.

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      Cops murder about 1000 people every year. Are you mad about that? Are you posting paragraphs about abolishing the police?

      I mean, not on here because I’d be preaching to the choir but elsewhere, yes. Lmfao I can be upset about multiple things. I can hate cops, industrialized society, and gigantic overly aggressive animals being encouraged as household pets, believe it or not. I can just as easily retort here and point out that while dog attacks generally aren’t typically fatal, there is a plethora of work available highlighting the severity of pit-bull attacks versus other dog breeds. Have you ever seen a pit bull mauling take place in real life? It’s not like a “normal” dog and I’m sick of pitbull mommies getting people hurt and killed by trying to lie to people about the danger these dogs present and the skill required to own them.

      What sort of shitass whataboutism is this??? Like, seriously. What point are you trying to make that doesn’t involve drawing fallacious equivalencies and stuffing opinions in my mouth for me?