For all of 2013 I spent time taking screenshots of every local and national media report that I could get my hands on in regards to any dog-related human fatality. This was a vast amount of information, and here are the relative circumstances that faux websites like DogsBite.org will never focus on, find relevant, or even bother to tell you.

There was 32 dog-related human fatalities in the United States in 2013.

There are 3 overriding circumstances that universally fit most instances where a dog is found to have killed a human. Those are: Roaming and loose dogs, chained and tethered (resident yard, non-family) dogs, and unsupervised children.

Only 6 of the 32 fatalities do not involve any of these circumstances.

26 of the 32 fatalities involve at least 1 of these circumstances, and many of the fatalities involved more than 1 in tandem.

Roaming/loose dogs killed 7 people this year.
Chained/resident dogs killed 12 people this year.
The non-supervision of children led to 16 deaths this year, victims who were all under the age of 7.

17 of the 32 incidents included NO PHOTO of the alleged offending dog or dogs. None.

15 of the 32 incidents came with at least 1 visual of the alleged offending dog or dogs. I have no idea how accurate or inaccurate these presented photos are.

5 of the 32 fatalities were potentially due to natural causes or foul play, maybe in full or maybe in partial, it’s ultimately unknown by anyone, but those ruling it out are just ruling it out to pad their promotional statistics.

1 of those fatalities is also a fatality that didn’t involve any of the 3 reckless circumstances that lead to most fatalities, thus potentially dropping that number from 6 to 5.

Breed is irrelevant, as there’s no way to accurately peg most of the dogs involved. Further, to focus on breed-centric pissing matches means that you’re actively attempting to suppress and ignore the real ways that one could actually go about making their community safer, which should be obvious to anyone that doesn’t look at how something visually appears and then think to their disgracefully soulless selves “every living thing that looks in any way like that should die.”

So in conclusion…

81.25% of all dog-related fatalities for 2013 involved either roaming dogs, chained/resident dogs, and/or the non-supervision of children.

18.75% of all dog-related fatalities for 2013 (or 6) involved no reported element of recklessness, and thus could be said that it was a much truer version of a dog-related fatality that couldn’t have been easily avoided.

Over 50% of the dog-related fatalities for 2013 had zero public evidence of what the offending dog or dogs actually looked like, only breed claims coming in the form of a media mention.

The truth is that dogs are incredibly safe. The truth is that there are 72-78+ million of them in the United States. The truth is that there’s well over 300 million of us in this same country. Think about how many daily interactions that creates! Dogs are incredibly safe. Pit Bulls are dogs. Throw whatever cherry-picked, unverified, media-reported statistic out at me that you want… 99.9999999999999% of all dogs, of all Pit Bulls, and no matter the breakdown–by breed or type or city or county or state–have never done anything to anyone. That is a stat that not a single person can refute.