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Lmao, what??
Are you making a joke in incredibly poor taste? Or is this because of a lack of understanding about statistics? ...or are you just racist?
Maybe you're trying to imply that pitbulls are victims of decades and decades of systemic racism and intergenerational trauma?... because that would be a hard argument to justify.
Pitbulls were bred to fight large animals, and later to fight each other. So there is a clear and obvious reason why they would be disproportionately dangerous compared to other breeds.
The stats are not cherry picked. They're overwhelming. Cherry picking is searching for "pitbull attacks" and saying "look how often it happens!". But the statistics show that pitbulls are disproportionately responsible for both attacks and human deaths from dog bites.. Yet, they are far from being the most numerous breed of dog in the US.