Pit Bulls have a way of turning everyone on the internet stupid.

As soon as there is a mention of Pit Bulls on the internet, there will be a contest in the comments section on who can love or hate them more. It doesn't matter where you are, Pit Bulls are the dog equivalent of a global warming discussion. Everyone has an opinion, and most of them are stupid and uninformed which will not stop people from internet yelling at each other.

I live in the city and I own a Pit Bull mix. Honestly, the dude is way more mutt than anything, and just happens to have a face stripe common among Pits and a big head. 

Taking them to a park for new trees to pee on and new butts to sniff.

He is one of the most loving dogs I have ever come across. He loves to wrestle with our German Shepard mix, tries to convince us to let him onto the bed every night and does whatever he can to make me happy because I am his boy. He is loyal, intelligent and very playful.

He also gets skittish when you hold out your hand for him to smell and has snapped at quite a few people.,\ I suspect he was smacked a lot when he was a puppy and not well socialized. Couple this with his fifty-five pound frame which can pull me off balance when playing tug of war if I'm not paying attention and you have a very potentially dangerous dog. However, after he gets a good sniff and sees you aren't a danger, he's fine. In fact, he looks very ashamed of himself when he snaps and gets yelled at. Our damn cats are more violent than he is.

What I'm getting at is Pit Bulls aren't horrendous, blood-thirsty animals. 

They aren't blessed little angels either. 

If you don't know, I am a part time journalist. My experience and training in the illustrious world of bringing you the news has colored the way I read news stories. When I write, I do my best to bring an unbiased look into the world around you. I don't have an agenda, I just have facts.

I also don't work for a publication driven by ads, so I'm not compelled to try to sell my work to anyone. In the real world, journalist write in order to drive page views or paper subscriptions, which is why a lot of gun articles use the stupid term "Assault rifle" and dog articles shoehorn in "Pit Bull" whenever they are able.

Funny enough, most people couldn't spot a pit bull to save their lives. Fox 2 has a great little quiz you can take if you think you know. And feel free to scroll back up and look at the orange dog up there. He's not really a Pit either, but he'd get labeled as one. Lord knows I've had people tell me he should be put down because he's a Pit.

People in this city sure do love to answer everything in the form of a gun. Who doesn't love the idea of some dipshit freaking out and shooting at a dog in your neighborhood? I'm sure their aim will be true and nothing else will be damaged or people harmed when you are viciously attacked by rabid gangs of dogs.

People like this is why I, as a gun owner, adamantly support gun control. I know many gun owners are normal people, but holy shit is it too easy for a round to come thorough my window because someone had a couple hundred bucks and a ride to Bass Pro. I don't need your stupid flinging bits of metal around just because you have a small penis and need everyone on the internet to know it.

Except they are under the name American Staffordshire Terrier. Pit bull is a generic name for short haired, medium sized dogs. Hence why few people can properly identify them.

And I'll admit, when I read this comment I thought to myself "That is a good point." I thought that for the five seconds it took me as a responsible internet user to google "AKC Pit Bull" and find this person was full of shit. I guess it's easier to spew forth a waterfall of bullshit than spend a moment researching.

I can't decide if this is a poor attempt at trolling or if Carl Wood here has some sort of terrible past with Pit Bulls. Or Nazis. Perhaps he crossed a pit bull and a Nazi in some kind of terrible accident. If so, it's his own fault he decided to the the dog Mengele.

If I was going to call a dog a Nazi, I'd go with German Shepards and Daschunds. Especially daschunds. People seem to forget that Wiener dogs are working animals just because they are small and funny looking. My brother has daschunds. They are little shits and have bitten our mother. My dogs have never bitten our mother. 

Another tick mark for me in the family will.

Wiener dogs are also easily swayed by fascist propaganda.

I love the argument for a "taste of blood" as though human blood has some magical power that makes specific dogs go coo-coo for coa-coa clots. I imagine if I splashed blood on my dog he would look at me quizzically and wander away to get all that weird smell off.

Unless you have blood that tastes like peanut butter and bacon, you're probably safe from any taste based dog attacks.

Of course a mass extermination is the answer. The CDC has reported that dog attacks killed 327 people (PDF) in a 20 year span, and things like snakes and scorpions kill thousands every year.

But no, kill all the dogs Cindy Otten has declared to be dangerous based on what the news tells her to be scared of this week. 

If we based genocidal decision on fear, we would have seen tarantulas gone years ago and Australia would have disappeared into the ocean. All the kangaroos can swim to New Zealand and live in the hobbit village.

I don't even know how this one worked out in Matt Rickard's mind. The liberal media is only reporting pit bull attacks? Does he read a weird local news page I don't know about? Is Fox a better place to get all my dog attack information because they are the only ones telling the REAL STORY?!?!?

Now I'm worried about my news consumption. Has the librul mediumb squelched Scotty dog attacks like it has Benghazi? Obama has his hand in everything. 

fite me irl faget.

Two dudes about to get into a fistfight about idiots who can't identify dogs. I bet when Graham Collins' call to 1v1 wasn't answered, he just assumed he won the argument. So congratulations. You managed to out stupid an idiot. Internet tough guy points all around!


Now for a section called "You're Not Helping."Most of the comments on the story were very positive toward Pit Bulls, but like assholes who claim to carry a gun everywhere in the event of a sudden urban person, people on the other side of the the argument can be stupid too.

While I don't believe it's anyone's duty to do all kinds of research for the ignorant, Misty Wade here manages to go the complete opposite route of helpful. Insulting someone for their opinion is not going to shame them into thinking the way you do, especially on the internet. 

While I understand someone admitting they are wrong on the internet is as rare as seeing a unicorn offering rainbow handjobs, you aren't going to win hearts and minds by calling people stupid online. 

Facebook prayers are annoying enough, but internet yelling your prayers and signing them is even worse. Even awkward old people aren't this terrible at the internet.

Sure your he is cute and playful. We're all super happy you have a dog that is well behaved. I guess that negates any other dog attacks. 

Also, children have ever been a problem. I have pictures of kids being well behaved which negates everything you say about problem kids.

This kind of attitude is completely disrespectful to people who have dealt with problem dogs. Any time I'm out walking my dogs, I try to steer clear of any other dogs. Not because I don't trust your dogs, but because mine sometimes act weird and irrationally around other dogs. I know this and I deal with it because he's a head case. We were warned about it when we got him and we've managed to turn him around.

I have plenty of pictures of my Pit mix acting all cute and adorable. I have no doubt that he would take you down if you were breaking into the house. As long as one of the cats isn't between the two of you.

Oh my, do I love the nanny dog argument. 

First off, now matter how much digging I do, the only "nanny dog" stuff I can find is because of a bunch of old vintage photos of children next to dogs. Those pictures try to call the Pit Bull a Nanny dog because it's in close proximity to a child.

While I'm sure these dogs were perfectly well behaved, this doesn't prove anything more than this photo:

Florida parenting is getting better every year.

Secondly, how people did things a hundred years ago isn't necessarily how we should be doing things today. Child labor laws and not treating coughs with heroin both seem to be working out for us right now. They are certainly loyal dogs, but I wouldn't sit one next to a baby while I go take a nap and assume everything is going to be alright. At least get a CPR card or something to let me know you can handle it!

Dogs are dogs. Some are good, some are shit, some can be more dangerous than others. Pit Bulls have high prey drives and are used as working dogs by the military for a reason, and it's not because they are animals who love to just lay around doing nothing. They have the potential to be dangerous, but in the right hands of a loving family, they will melt your heart. Mine sure does.

I think it took about twenty minutes to get this photo. He's not good at hats yet.