This week Denver police have been rounding up pit bulls to be killed. Not just the dangerous ones, not the ones who have attacked people, not ones trained to be dangerous… just pretty much any pit bull. Because they’re now illegal.
Folks, dogs — not even pit bulls — are killing machines. Unless they’re raised that way. The reason you hear about pit bulls, rottweilers, and such are because they’re strong, and there’s a huge societal fear of them. So when they do attack someone, it makes national news and the victim of the attack is almost always portrayed as an innocent by-stander. But why is that? Well, when you get attacked by a dog like a pit bull or rottwieler, you’re going to get hurt. That’s pretty much the bottom line. They’re big, strong dogs. When was the last time anyone was mauled by a chihuahua? Never. But which breed is more likely to bite? To be aggressive for no good reason? Folks, the small dogs are more aggressive and unstable than rottweilers and pit bulls. You don’t hear about it because if you get bitten by one of those little things you don’t report it… and it certainly doesn’t do any grave damage.
The point here is no breed of dog is “inherently bad” or a naturally ruthless killing machine. Some of them are very good at defending themselves, and some dogs of all breeds are unstable and dangerous… but this is just ridiculous.
Of course, PETA is nowhere to be found. They’re more interested in scaring the hell out of your children and trying to convince you to stop eating meat. The ACLU is involved, but wants to make it a race issue. That would make sense, if we were talking about the race of the dogs.
It’s going to be a pretty vanilla world if we start outlawing everything that can harm people.
I’m glad to know there are cities out there with dumber politicians than New Orleans.
Proves my theory that the state of Colorado is crazy. CRAZY!
If they’re going to kill all those dogs, they should at least eat them. What would the native americans think?
Or my fellow Asians for that matter.
It’d be different if this were the first thing they have tried. But this is an ongoing problem. People don’t want to cooperate? Then they pay the price.
It’s like the kid who keeps putting gum in the girls’ hair in class even though he gets punished. Eventually… no one is allowed to have gum.
A few bad apples spoil the bushel. Sucks… but I’m in favor of it if people can’t learn to exist.
Ummm… but I’d like to see the nice doggies relocated to maybe some nice needy people who could raise them properly. I don’t think they need to destroy the nice doggies.
Well, we might as well take away everyone’s cars… and knives… and anything else that a few bad apples might misuse.
No sense in allowing law-abiding people to enjoy their lives with anything that could even possibly be misused, right?
Damn apples.
Yeah. We really ought to switch to oranges.
A few bad ones of those don’t ruin the bunch, do they?
Why don’t we just start stabbing folks?
I’m glad to see that if you get enough stupid people working together then it becomes the statis quo.