Highlights: In a bizarre turn of events last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he would ban American XL bullies, a type of pit bull-shaped dog that had recently been implicated in a number of violent and sometimes deadly attacks.
XL bullies are perceived to be dangerous — but is that really rooted in reality?
That describes about half of all dogs, so no fucking shit.
Yeah, it’s clear that these people that use dog bite statistics to argue for breed bans are not doing so in good faith. The breed is unknown is over half of all dog bite cases. That is the beginning and end of this discussion. It’s all that needs to be said.
The entire premise of these ban advocates is based on counting something that simply cannot be counted.
I suspect it is really just a ruse to push sympathy for eugenics and right-wing pseudo science about genetics.