Ever wondered what kinds of people went in for pit bulls, rottweilers and other breeds which often get their names in the papers for all the wrong reasons? If you guessed "thugs and other sociopaths" you'd be on the right track.
People who own vicious dogs such as pit bulls have significantly more criminal convictions -- including crimes against children -- than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, researchers reported on Thursday.
A study of 355 dog owners in Ohio showed that every owner of a high-risk breed known for aggression had at least one brush with the law, from traffic citations to serious criminal convictions.Can there be any doubt that these figures arise because vicious individuals seek out breeds in keeping with their own temperaments? Keep this report in mind next time you encounter some mealy-mouthed apologist spouting nonsense about certain breeds being no worse than others: if this were true, golden retrievers would be a lot more popular with the sociopathic set.And 30 percent of people who owned an aggressive breed of dog and who also had been cited at least once for failure to register it had at least five criminal convictions or traffic citations.
This compared to 1 percent of owners of low-risk, licensed dogs such as poodles, beagles or collies, the researchers reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
"Owners of vicious dogs who have been cited for failing to register a dog (or) failing to keep a dog confined on the premises ... are more than nine times more likely to have been convicted for a crime involving children, three times more likely to have been convicted of domestic violence ... and nearly eight times more likely to be charged with drug (crimes) than owners of low-risk licensed dogs," said Jaclyn Barnes of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
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