So if you cut off the end of a shotgun you should cut off both ends for it to not be illegal. Got it.

I am surprised the first response I got was not an attack. The pro pit propaganda runs hard and encouraged pretty rabbid harassment. I don’t blame people that don’t know for defending pits. It’s the ones that argue in bad faith and ignore obvious data that are the problem. There’s a reason why pits, and only pits, need to be defended so aggressively. All it takes is just googling reports of actual dog attacks to see almost all of the reports involved a pit or pit mix. Hell all you have to do is Google pictures of pitbulls vs porcupines and then compare those to literally any other dog breed vs porcupines. Normal dogs take a hit and get deterred out of their natural survival and pain avoidance instincts. Pits just maul them harder till they all but kill themselves. That’s what happens when you breed some poor animal to fight to the death against other animals. It’s tragic what we have bred into these dogs and even more tragic that instead of taking responsibility for it and at least attempting to breed it out and/or restrict breeding, we double down and make more and more lies about them that get innocent people maimed and killed. Then when people try to point all this out they get harassed to no end.

https://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/2009-dog-attack-deaths-maminings-merritt-clifton.pdf

You mean these stats from a 32 your study of US and Canada from 1982 to 2009 that shows over 60% of dog attacks from from pitbulls? Here’s a collections of yearly reported dog attacks.

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities.php

Here’s a few studies on the medical significance of dog bites and breed.

https://www.nationalpitbullvictimawareness.org/articles/medical-studies-on-pit-bulls/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34100808/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51034290_Mortality_Mauling_and_Maiming_by_Vicious_Dogs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261032/

https://www.plasticsurgery.org/news/press-releases/complex-dog-bites-in-children-experience-and-recommended-treatment

And how about breed specific behavior studies?

https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-016-2936-3

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/509315v1

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233995885_Breed_differences_in_canine_aggression

These are just a few of dozens of studies and reports that have been done on dogs attacks and biology.

The Fifth Estate also has a good video with proponents of both sides. https://youtu.be/iFa8HOdegZA

You can’t because they didn’t. They just made it up as pitbull enthusiasts always do. On the other hand here’s a site that has numerous reports on dog bit statistics and also a link to the National Pitbull Victims Awareness collective. No other breed of dog has so many organizations dedicated to victims and no other group of animal supporters attacks victims like pitbull advocates do.

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-multi-year-fatality-report-2005-2017.php

https://www.nationalpitbullvictimawareness.org/articles/medical-studies-on-pit-bulls/

Here is a report of US and Canada dog attacks from 1982 to 2009. (PDF download) https://www.dogsbite.org/pdf/2009-dog-attack-deaths-maminings-merritt-clifton.pdf

Oh I get it completely but the issue I see is that there won’t BE any real action or reform taken specifically because the capitalist system doesn’t want it to. It’s like how the vast majority support extended background checks but Congress will never touch that shit. America is so fucked it would take the ending of capitalism in order to implement any of these ideas. At least that’s how it seems to be from my point of view of the society… God I hate it here.

I don’t think the killing in US will ever stop so long as capitalism remains in charge. Most of these comments, while mostly correct, and discussing the symptoms that are causing the mass shootings while the underlying cause of those symptoms is being ignored. Fascist propaganda, white supremacy, mental health, etc? All these things stem from the same general source. They are all a product of rampant capitalism. Especially the mental health. We either don’t treat it at all or give people “antidepressants” that have been linked to erratic and violent behavior. All the stresses, social isolations, poverty, etc. that cause kids and adults alike to just go shoot up schools and shit. It’s all a product of capitalism driving the labor class insane. It’s meant to. To keep us killing each other and not the capitalists.

Sure, you could enact laws against propaganda, better background checks, all that, but those things will never pass in the US’s hyper capitalist government. In theory they could work but in order for them to be put into practice you have to actually do something about capitalism. And if you end capitalism you get rid of a lot of the factors that cause the shootings in the first place.