I'm looking for clues to a bigger picture. I see this as just one example among many and those factors are all used somehow as steps to take this example to a destination.
But what is at work selling US the travel brochure and maps? Who's driving and how do I get off of whatever this is?
If you look closely, what is happening to the pit bull is very similar to what is happening to guns. Both were, not all that long ago, a common/accepted part of American life.
Now both are things inspiring fear and "should be banned!"
Different, yet the same play. Curious.
Just an observation but, contrary to what the MSM would have us believe, firearms do not go off on their own volition. OTOH, Pit Bulls ...
Excuse me, but "pet" dogs that kill or severely maim people minding their own business -- from old ladies pruning their roses to guys working on their cars to mail carriers walking between two cars to gents having an evening smoke on the back porch -- have NEVER been a common/accepted part of American life.
Comparing an inanimate tool for self-defense or hunting such as a gun to a dog of a known-deadly breed whose owner regards as "my precious baby who is just misunderstood" is nuts. Hello?
There was a time when I wasn't wary of a pitbull, not anymore. For me it is not that they just have the ability to bite, but once they start the propensity isn't to stop until whatever/whoever it is ...is dead.
Understand that when one reads up on bite stats, it is the humble dachshund that is the most likely to bite you...but he is not likely to kill you. http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2013.php
