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Breed Specific Legislation that manynhere pray for will not stop with Pits...like any other nanny statism (see ciggies) it will mushroom and entail any working class aggressive dog breed period in short order

many of the same municipalities and counties that ban pits also ban Rotts, all Mastiff breeds, Dogos ...maybe Alsatians and Dobies too...not sure on that but what they would like is to ban all Mollasers and their mixed descendants which is ironic considering Pits have a high terrier DNA

any time a child is killed by a pet it is tragic..very...I never leave my bully even though bully is only 5 months with my 3 year old but unless we are all to own just Labs or less then folks should be careful what they wish for

I have owned guard breeds all my life and I'm older... they have only bitten folks who had it coming because I tended to them.

I wonder how many here think some breeds of humans are more likely to kill, rape or rob ya?...just sayin...

"I have owned guard breeds all my life and I'm older... they have only bitten folks who had it coming because I tended to them."

I never said you should not own a guard dog. I just said you need to be in control of it. My dog barks. I decide when it is time to bite. A good arrangement if you ask me.

Amen, wardaddy. The "solution" of banning pit bulls and other "wardog" types, would be worse than the problem. And I really, really hate pit bulls and don't for an instant buy the ol' "It's the owner, not the breed" crap. Of course it's the breed -- but so many people have so thoroughly bought into the "Dogs are people, too!" mentality that they equate discriminating between pit bulls and basset hounds as a form of canine racism. I think people have become so urbanized that they've lost all touch with nature.

I don't know what the solution is, and TOTALLY AGREE that breed-banning is the wrong option. I can think of a few things: being able to be armed with a firearm any time, any place, is one; for owners to expect that their pit bulls will be shot dead on sight if they're running loose on any property other than their own; for there to be extremely harsh, expensive consequences for the owners of certain breeds whose value is in their aggressive qualities (great guard dogs, for example) when those dogs are found running loose, etc.

But pretending that this isn't a breed problem but a people problem is just plain denial. It's like saying a rattlesnake isn't any more capable of killing a person than a gopher snake.

I wonder how many here think some breeds of humans are more likely to kill, rape or rob ya?...just sayin...

Heh. Methinks you hit the nail on the noggin.

And apparently goobermint sux unless it's being used as your own personal goon squad.