Pitbulls Should Not Be Banned Essay

In 2005, Council Bluffs, Iowa Pitbulls were banned, But the number of dog attacks increased. For many years pitbulls have been known as a bad dog breed, for children and adults. Recently Pitbulls have been banned from many cities, making it hard for pitbulls, and their owners to move anywhere. This has been trending recently because of the recent dog attack rates. Pitbulls should not be banned anywhere.

There is no evidence that pitbull bans make communities safer. “In 1990, Winnipeg,Canada, pitbulls were banned, which actually increased the number of dog bites, however rottweiler bites went up immediately.” In 2000 when they changed this law, all dog bites decreased. This proves that the pitbulls were not actually the ones that were attacking,

According to a study of fatal dog bites between 1979 and 1996, explained that although fatal attacks on humans appear to be a breed-specific problem, meaning only one breed, other breeds may bite and cause fatalities at higher rates, than pitbulls. This evidence proves that other breeds can be more dangerous so instead of focusing on pitbulls they can focus on other things that may harm america. Pitbulls are also more likely to bite less than other dogs, such as dobermans. Pitbulls are actually one of the most mistreated dogs, that is what earned themself a bad name, so it is not the dogs fault, it is the owners fault. “In Calgary, Alberta, Canada,they wrote a community policing policy that focuses on aggression of dogs rather than the breed of dogs.”Best Friends Animal Society explained three are mitigating factors in dog attacks, 97% of the owners had not sterilized the dogs, 84% of the owners had abused or neglected their dogs, and caused dog bites, and 78% were using the dogs as protective dogs for farms, or himself instead of keeping the dogs as home held pets.” With the safety of the US I think we should focus on bigger causes like maybe helping the homeless, instead of worrying about mistreated dogs. I can think of many problems in the Us, instead of pitbulls, like the constant rise of inflation, and other things that are hurting the US. What might happen to

On average if they were to ban pitbulls nationwide, it may cost four hundred, and seventy six million dollars every year. This includes enforcement of the law, related vet and shelter care, euthanization and disposal, and legal fees, all of this adds up to billions every 5 years. That is a big cost for something, that is not that big of a deal. Pitbulls are not that dangerous to pay billions of dollars. Pitbulls, also, are not even the leading cause of deaths in dogs, so surely we should not worry about them now. Pitbulls are rarely harmful, the chances of getting bit are low, if the pitbull is trained. Less than 17% of dogs bite, of those bites around 1.4% of them kill, that means that they are killing 0.00001% of the word population. For every death, taxpayers must pay 11.9 million dollars. This could have a huge effect not only on the American economy, but could also affect the world's economy. One of the highest selling dogs is a pitbull, so breeders would be losing a lot of money if they were to be banned, and may also have to find a new