Why We Shouldn T Pit Bulls Be Banned

Should Pit Bulls be Banned from Certain Public Spaces? If you have a dog, then I would like you to imagine something. Imagine you are walking your dog one day and someone walks past you but moves to the other side of the street or says something about your dog because of the breed. How would that make you feel? Well, this is what people who own pit bulls and other large breeds go through. People all over the world, especially in England right now, are fighting for their pit bulls because people are trying to ban them. There are many reasons why pit bulls should not be banned in certain public places. While poor pet ownership plays a huge role in a dog’s behavior, breed-specific legislation is incredibly ineffective, breed-specific legislation

Overall, dogs don’t bite just because they bite to protect themselves. So in order to solve the problem, instead of just going back and forth, we need to find out what is happening that is making them feel threatened. The third reason pit bulls should not be banned is because breed-specific legislation is insanely expensive. So if it is ineffective then why is this the only approach we have taken to solve the problem of pit bulls being “aggressive”. “Nationwide breed-specific legislation would cost about $476 million per year, including enforcement of the law, related to vet and shelter care, euthanization and disposal, and legal fees” (“Pit Bull Bans—Top 3 pros and cons”). This means that it would cost the government $476 million a year to be able to ban pit bulls completely. 476 million dollars is an immense amount of money, there are a huge amount of things we could be spending that money on to better our country than worrying about whether banning a breed makes a community safer or not. For example, bettering the education

This is also an immense amount of money and with inflation already happening in today’s world, people aren’t going to want to pay more taxes than what they already have to. Therefore, people aren’t going to want to have to spend more money to worry about banning a dog and the government would have to pay a large amount of money to actually enforce it when there are a multitude of things to spend that money on in order to better the country as a whole. The final reason why pit bulls should not be banned is because every dog has the potential to be aggressive and bite. People shouldn’t be singling out one breed of dog when every dog on Earth has the ability to have aggressive behavior and bite someone. Stephan Zawistowski, science advisor to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), said “you can’t just pick a breed of dog and say somehow that will be predictive of whether the dog will be aggressive”(Eveleth). This is saying that the breed of dog isn’t going to be a determining factor if they are aggressive or not, it’s much deeper than