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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dog attacks won’t stop unless we ban all dogs

This’s is where I issue my standard challenge to find the statistics on fatalities cause by dachshund attacks

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Once again, someone didn't read my first two paragraphs.

But for challenges.

Here is a list of dog attacks fatalities in the uk the summary has a yearly count. Just looking at the numbers, what year was the pitbull ban and state your reasoning only using the numbers? For example if you pick 1985 because there were 4 that year and fewer after, then the dog breed ban wasn't effective because the exact same thing happened in 1991.

Dog breed bans do not prevent fatal dog attacks, the numbers bear that out and my initial comment explains why. This is so much red meat for the emotional or dead cat for the guilable, whatever it is, it's boring.