I could post pictures from car crashes...would that justify banning cars? How many die from drunk drivers - does that mean we need prohibition?
Yes, there are stupid people, and there are also mean dogs. And stupid people are more likely to own mean dogs.
There are also millions of good dogs and dog owners, raising millions of happy kids in constant contact with dogs. I have 50+ years of living with dogs with no injuries of me or of anyone who has ever met us. It isn’t hard. And if I were inclined to take pictures, I’d have a thousand of kids playing with dogs - all without anyone ever being hurt. Deal with it, and stop supporting and promoting people like (from your link):
“Kenneth M. Phillips is the only attorney in the USA who does nothing other than represent people who have been seriously injured by dogs. Widely recognized as the nation’s leading authority on dog bite law, he has earned tens of millions of dollars for dog bite victims all over the USA.”
Now THAT is an unbiased source...
As for what you said, let’s go to the tape:
“I have to ask, Why is it so important to have a dog? You apparently are an intelligent person, and are well aware that dogs are dangerous and can hurt your children. To me one child is worth a million dogs. Why put any child at risk? Dogs killing children is not common, but dogs injuring children severely enough to require the services of a plastic surgeos is a very common event.”
I thought you wanted to post some dog/child interaction pictures. Since you gave some examples I decided to do the same. If you don't like my pictues, then don't post your mawkish pictures.
would that justify banning cars?
Please show me where I recommended banning dogs.
Now THAT is an unbiased source
Dogs bite children - frequently. CDC unbiased enough for you? (of course not any reality that contradicts your world view is to be discredited), but From the cdc web site:
Each year, 800,000 Americans seek medical attention for dog bites; half of these are children. Of those injured, 386,000 require treatment in an emergency department and about 16 die. The rate of dog bite-related injuries is highest for children ages 5 to 9 years, and the rate decreases as children age. Almost two thirds of injuries among children ages four years and younger are to the head or neck region. Injury rates in children are significantly higher for boys than for girls.Your denying the reality show that you're more than a bit irrational on the subject of dogs.
Deal with it,
Au contrair. You're the one who needs to "deal with it." Pull your head out of the sand and realize that dogs are dangerous. - particularly dangerous to children. If you want to put your children at risk I couldn't care less, but presumably someone who isn't as irrational about dogs as you are might think twice about putting their child at risk just to have a pet.
Anybody care to guess *the* #1 cause of death for children in the US?
Their own mothers.
Ban pit moms.
[locally, just recently, a “mom” was waiting in the welfare office and decided to repeatedly stab her little daughter in the chest and head]
She should be euthanized...but she won’t be.
She’ll be “evaluated”, “medicated” and back on the streets all too soon.
So tell me why a dumb animal who cannot truly understand the consequences of its deeds pays the heavier penalty when a “mom” with intent and intellect brutally murders her own child?
FYI, Kenneth M. Phillips has gotten filthy rich by promoting anti-dog litigious hysteria.
He should write for Snopes.
Along that same vein, one might also ask “Why is it so important to have a pool (many children die every year in backyard pools); why is it so important to have a 4–wheel drive SUV (especially if you don’t live in a rural area that gets a lot of snow); why is it so important to have a gun (if you’re not a hunter, don’t live in a high crime area, how many stories are there about kids getting a hold of improperly secured guns)? According to the CDC the leading causes of accidental childhood death are car crashes, poisoning and suffocation.
The leading causes of childhood injury are falls, bicycles, drowning, airway obstruction (in infants), and 45% of all unintentional injury deaths occurred in and around the home being the result of fire and burns, suffocation, drowning, firearms, falls, choking and poisoning.
Am I saying that dogs cannot be potential dangerous? No. Am I saying that some dogs in particular cannot be dangerously aggressive? No. Am I saying that young children should be left with a dog unsupervised? No. In fact interestingly a number of dogs (I don’t have the # handy) are injured every year by children, most through falls or playing too rough with a small or elderly dog.
There are millions of dogs of all sizes and breeds living in homes with children and the vast majority of these children and adults will never be bitten or injured by their dogs. And where aggressive dogs do attack and injure or kill children; sorry to be blunt here, but when you look closely at a lot of these “families”, they are irresponsible and neglectful to both their dogs and their children; can you say Holder’s people – I knew you could; or for that matter, just to be fair and honest, lighter skinned trailer trash, meth lab types. Kids in these homes are also just as likely to be poisoned by picking up some leftover crack from last night’s party or pick up a loaded gun carelessly left out.