[allmendream]

I have known over a dozen pit bulls well, usually sweet slobbery brutes. I have even killed a couple that I knew a little too well and knew needed to be dead. I work with dogs professionally. I am a lifelong owner of dogs, and currently own a Labrador and a Bull Mastiff.

Yes, and many dogs bites CAN kill, but the combination of LIKELYNESS to bite, and ABILITY to kill is a potent one. Pit Bulls are bred to fight and kill, thus they are more likely to bite, and more likely to inflict severe damage when they bite, and less likely to stop before killing.

I agree that no small government conservative should be for a government ban on a dog breed, or their mass euthanasia.

But as a person who emphasizes RESPONSIBLE dog ownership, I think SEVERE criminal and civil liabilities should be brought to bear upon scum who raise these dogs such that the second they are free they are out looking to kill, and then “oopsie” let them loose.

And again, Pit Bulls were bred to be fighting and killing dogs, not nanny dogs.

[JLLH]

” I agree that no small government conservative should be for a government ban on a dog breed, or their mass euthanasia.

But as a person who emphasizes RESPONSIBLE dog ownership, I think SEVERE criminal and civil liabilities should be brought to bear upon scum who raise these dogs such that the second they are free they are out looking to kill, and then “oopsie” let them loose.”

On this we are in complete agreement.