Originally Posted by chephy
Alas, that takes money and political will. It's much cheaper, faster and more popular to just ban a breed: does nothing to solve dog-biting problems, causes much suffering to thousands of good dogs and their owners but scores easy political points. Disgusting.
I found this link kind of interesting. Note that you can't make direct comparisons because the group sizes are different, but still:
http://www.atts.org/statistics.html Irish setters scored far better than I'd give them credit for.
Yes, breed banning is good political fodder. And I used to have quite a bit of respect for Michael Bryant.