Pit bulls are too dangerous to be pets and need to be banned to protect children.

I am glad to see that my opponent has agreed that pit bulls are by far the most dangerous breed of dog in the world. Too compare an animal that has been bred to bring down 2,000 lb bulls and too fight like savages in a pit to a hamster is......ridiculous. Does it make sense for you to reason that because people suffer from accidents in life we should allow dangerous dogs too kill children, people, and pets? Does it make sense that a breed of dog that makes up between 5% to 10% of the total dog population is responsible for 80% of the dog bite related deaths? Is this OK? No, it is not. Does it make sense to argue that people kill more than pit bulls? No, it does not. We should try to prevent people from killing each other as well. Comparing dog's to people and accidents is foolish. People will have accidents, and people will behave violently. We should do everything we can to prevent and discourage this behavior. Pit bulls will continue to maul, disfigure, and kill, our children, our elderly, and our pets. When did we become so selfish as a society that we put a pet before our children's safety? Pit bulls were banned in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1990. Winnipeg had a major pit bull problem before the ban. When children were being attacked by these vicious fighting dogs, legislation was put in place. There have been 0 pit bull attacks in Winnipeg since the ban was fully implemented. There have been 0 disfigured children, dead children, dead family pets. Severe injuries due to dog bites are down, hospitalizations from dog bites are down. Not having pit bulls in the community has made Winnipeg a safer City. This is common sense. Swimming in water that does not have sharks in it safer than swimming in water with sharks. I believe we should do everything in our power as parents, adults, and leaders in society to prevent deaths from falling down the stairs, drowning, and fatal dog attacks. I do not see the #27 when related too people being torn to shreds by vicious dogs until they are dead as a small number. When we look at "all" pit bull attacks the number grows to over 10,000 per year when we are talking about pets and animals killed every year by pit bulls. Between 600 and 800 people go to the hospital every day with injuries sustained from pit bull attacks in the USA. Do the living victims that have survived their attack count? Do the little girls that have had their faces torn to shreds and will have to live their whole lives disfigured not count? I will ad links so victims story's can heard: Animals Rights: Believe it or not, Tigers are living creatures with functioning brains and they experience emotions, including love[7]. 50% of pit bulls fail in family homes due to aggression issues. Thousands of pit bulls are put down every week in the USA. My opponent is seemingly OK with these animals being slaughtered every week. A ban on pit bulls would put a stop to the slaughter of these animals in shelters. A properly legislated pit bull ban would not harm the current existing pit bulls. New pit bull ownership and breeding of pit bulls would be banned. Existing owners would be allowed to keep their pets until they pass away or kill their children. Animals do not have the right to be left alone until a violation is committed. Punishing pits after a child is disfigured or killed is insane. We know these dogs are extremely dangerous. We know these dogs are extremely unpredictable. We know that if we continue to own pits as pet 2 people will be severely injured every 12 hours in the USA. Putting down the dog and fining the owner is not a solution. You know the idiot will just go get another pit and say "this one is really sweet". Tigers have been trained too be pets in some regions of the world, and they have brains and love as well. Why do we not allow people too own Tigers as pets? Lions have been domesticated and have all the same traits as a house cat. Can I get a Lion? The answer is no, because they are too dangerous. The same way that pit bulls are too dangerous. Pit bulls were created and bred for fighting. Dog fighting is illegal. Why would we continue to breed dangerous animals and place them in family homes? If people are responsible for breeding this natural born killer, we can stop breeding them. There are over 400 different breeds of dog on earth and most are safe. Get a breed that is not killing our children. I believe that pictures of cute little kid's who have been ripped to shreds by pit bulls does a lot to put things into perspective. What should our #1 responsibility be as a society too our children, our elderly, our citizens.? As a parent, an adult, an intelligent, reasonable person, should we allow people in our society to own dangerous fighting dogs as pets? Should we let them walk beside us on the street? Run in the dog parks with our pets? What kind of people want these animals in the first place? Pit bulls are the #1 breed of choice by dog fighters, drug dealers, gang bangers, criminals, and people with criminal records. Since when did we allow this segment of the population decide what was safe for our children and our communities? My opponent has stated that there have been only 6 people killed by pit bulls in the USA this year (it's actually 7). Only? What kind of person is OK with an obviously dangerous breed taking human life? Children's lives? I am not ok with it. A person is bitten by a dog every 75 seconds in the USA. We know dogs are unpredictable. Why would we allow people to own a breed that is so very capable of mauling, maiming, disfiguring, and taking lives? If we continue too allow pit bull ownership in the USA, Children, elderly, people, and pets will continue to be severely injured and killed. If we ban pit bulls, our communities will become much safer, and lives will be saved. 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