Dogs are bred for certain things. Every dog breeder knows that. The sad fact is that pit bulls have been taken over by gang bangers, and only the most vicious dogs were bred. I am not saying that there aren't some very nice pits. However, this breed has been bred to fight.
The same way herding dogs love to herd, water dogs love the water, bird dogs love birds, and pit bulls love to fight.
It will take a lot of selective breeding to get that instinct out of the breed.
BTW, I still don't like the court ruling.
I not only spent my life with dogs, buy I also went to school to be a vet tech.
You have no idea what I know or don’t know about animals in general and dogs, specifically.
As my freind would say...bite me.
Bite me.
I am a breeder (GSDs) and certain bloodlines have certain traits, and if you select for specific traits, and if you know what you are doing, you will get what you want.
Bottom line: it is the fault of the breeders, and people that fought them, that developed the breed as it is now, not the dog's fault. The dangerous aspect of them can be bred out of them, but it would take 3-5 generations of CAREFUL breeding to see some progress, and you will never get it all out of the breed. (Example: hip dysplasia in GSDs runs about 18% and has done so for about 20 years. It will most likely never get lower, due to a few individual dogs that were used to develop the breed. Some traits that were heavily selected for early in the development of the breed will never entirely go away...)
I don't like any sort of anti-dog legislation: it is mostly ignorant, and another example of judges/lawyers thinking they know more than anyone else, and that they can "fix things" better than anyone else, regardless of qualifications and knowledge.
How much?
How much breeding was required to "breed in" the fighting instinct? And fighting what/whom? Dogs? Humans? Is 90 years enough to breed it out?
And please provide your educational/professional qualifications, because frankly you sound like any other internet expert/blowhard.