Cite your assertions.
“Cite your assertions.”
Ok, here goes:
“Although fatal attacks on humans appear to be a breed-specific problem, other breeds may bite and cause fatalities at higher rates. Because of difficulties inherent in determining a dog’s breed with certainty, enforcement of breed-specific ordinances raises constitutional and practical issues. Fatal attacks represent a small portion of dog bite injuries to humans and therefore should not be the primary factor driving public policy concerning dangerous dogs.”
“Our search strategy involved scanning the text of newspapers and periodicals for certain words and word combinations likely to represent human dbrf followed by a review of articles containing those terms.”
“Numerator data may be biased for 4 reasons. First, the human DBRF reported here are likely underestimated; prior work suggests the approach we used identifies only 74% of actual cases. Second, to the extent that attacks by one breed are more newsworthy than those by other breeds, our methods may have resulted in differential ascertainment of fatalities by breed. Third, because identification of a dog’s breed may be subjective (even experts may disagree on the breed of a particular dog), DBRF may be differentially ascribed to breeds with a reputation for aggression...”
“...fatal bites constitute less than 0.00001% of all dog bites annually....have remained constant over time...”
“To decrease the risk of dog bites, several communities have enacted breed-specific restrictions or bans. In general, these have focused on pit bull-type dogs and Rottweilers. However, breeds responsible for human DBRF have varied over time...since 1975, dogs belonging to more than 30 breeds have been responsible for fatal attacks on people, including daschunds...”
“Breed specific legislation does not address the fact that a dog of any breed can become dangerous when bred or trained to be aggressive. From a scientific point of view, we are unaware of any formal evaluation of the effectiveness of breed-specific legislation in preventing fatal or nonfatal dog bites.”
All quotes taken from http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/duip/dogbreeds.pdf