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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like we should ban water pails, cribs, palm trees, bath tubs and parents.

1.) About 40 people (children) per year die by drowning in 5-gallon water pails. A person, during their lifetime, is 16 times more likely to drown in a 5-gallon water pail than to be killed by a Pit Bull.

2.) Approximately 50 children in the US are killed every year by their cribs - 25 times the number of children and adults killed by Pit Bulls.

3.) Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts. Therefore, you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a Pit Bull.

4.) Each year, 350 people drown in their bathtubs. You are 151 times more likely to be killed by your bathtub than you are by a Pit Bull.

5) Every year, more than 2,000 children in the U.S. are killed by their parents or guardians either through abuse or neglect. A child is more than 800 times more likely to be killed by their caretaker than by a Pit Bull.

6) It can be estimated that for every Pit Bull who kills, there are 10.5 MILLION that DON'T![/quote]

These stats are on deaths. What about stats on injuries from pitbulls (ones that don't result in death)? What are the stats on those?[/quote]

Bite statistics are difficult to obtain accurately. Dogs that are referred to as “pit bulls” in
statistical reports actually are a variety of breeds and mixes all lumped
together under the “pit bull” heading. Also, many people have a difficult
time properly identifying a true Pit Bull, so added to the statistics are
those dogs that have been misidentified. Considering these factors, the
actual number of attacks attributable to American Pit Bull Terriers is
considerably lower than represented. Also important to understand is
the extreme popularity of the Pit Bull and pit bull-type breeds. By some
estimates, numbers-wise they are the most popular of all dog breeds. It
is only logical to assume that the breed with the higher number of
individual dogs would be represented with a higher number of bites.
Viewing older statistical reports for the Center of Disease Control, one
will see that trends in breed popularity reflect in the number of bites
attributed to a specific breed during a specific period of time.

Think about the facts before you judge.  Pit Bull Statistics are truthful, with no bias.

According to the American Temperament Test Society, temperament evaluations of American Pit Bull Terriers shows that this breed has a very high passing rate of 82.6%    The average passing rate for the other 121 breeds of dogs in the tests: 77%. Better temperament, means less likely to bite.

If you are [b]TRULY[/b] worried about pit bulls attacks, and aren't just trying to fight, contact your local government about cracking down on backyard breeders and dog fighting rings. In just about every case of a pit bull attack, the dogs was found to be undernourished, abused, chained up, etc. These are the people doing this, not the vast majority of responsible owners who love their pit bulls. As stated before, if pit bulls were such a liability, rescue leagues and shelters would not adopt them out because they would go broke from law suits. Think about it, people!! Use some logic![/quote]

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