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There are many ways to make sure the people who live in your neighborhood don’t own pit bulls. After all, this entire thread is based on the notion that people are working hard to pass laws to prevent people from owning pit bulls.

And if you made a law that nobody could own pit bulls, it would pretty much guarantee that people in nice neighborhoods wouldn’t have their children killed by pit bulls.

I could also move into an HOA neighborhood where they ban pit bulls. Or I could buy a house where there are no neighbors.

The point is that the comparison was stupid, because people avoid being killed by Coconuts by avoiding trees with coconuts — and the pro-pit-bull people here are arguing that we should NOT be allowed to acheive the same result against pit bull attacks, by preventing pit bulls from being near us.

it has nothing to do with being a dictator. It was a simple statement of fact. I never said I would ban pit bulls. I said that banning pit bulls would prevent the death of many innocent children and pets.

I leave it to others to decide where on the risk-reward chart banning pit bulls falls. It seems that, for those who don’t already own pit bulls, banning pit bulls is really of little consequence, given the large number of other types of dogs you could purchase. But it certainly is a burden.

Is it a good thing we are not neighbors? Well, the last time I had a neighbor with dogs they could not control, I exercised my rights to not have angry, dangerous dogs running into my yard and attacking my children — I moved to a different neighborhood.

I’d hate to think that you are a pit bull owner, because in a thread where the anti-pit-bull crowd is arguing that pit bull owners are people who threaten their neighbors, it would be a shame if you were an example of said threats. Unless you simply meant that your dogs would rudely awake me with their incessant barking.

Mostly, I just find it silly to try to argue against the facts about pit bulls. It is clear there is a substantive difference in certain breeds of dogs; when my heighbor’s dog was brutally murdered by a pit bull, that owner had never trained their pit bull to be a vicious attack dog — it was simply in the nature of the pet.

I said that banning pit bulls would prevent the death of many innocent children and pets.

So would banning guns and mama's boyfriend, but I guess you would be against banning those.

I?d hate to think that you are a pit bull owner, because in a thread where the anti-pit-bull crowd is arguing that pit bull owners are people who threaten their neighbors

I am a very proud "pit bull" owner and again,I find individuals who want to behave as dictators and take away my freedoms to be the threat. So again, your problem would be with me not the dog.

Is it a good thing we are not neighbors? Well, the last time I had a neighbor with dogs they could not control

I don't have a dog that I can't control. You wouldn't have a problem with my dog, the problem would be with me. I don't allow neighbors to tell me how to live. I still believe in freedom. What little we have left from folks like you determined to turn us into a nanny state.

It is clear

The only thing clear is that you don't have a clue, so why don't you go get one.

Charles, that was a very nice post and I appreciate it.

MY goal is to make people aware of the GOOD that can come from training a pit, a rottie, a GSD.... ANY dog WELL....thereby... decreasing dog bites.

They’re still dogs....to be treated as such, but to be TRAINED PROPERLY.

I also believe it’s a mighty slippery slope that the press has taken us on with the heavy reporting of pit bites. I’ll betcha there’s been a LOT of large animal bites that go unreported.

I don’t want breed selection legislation. What if MY breed is next?

Me? I’d take the dang OWNERS and jail them if I had my druthers...

And if you made a law that nobody could own ~~pit bulls,~~ guns, it would pretty much guarantee that people in nice neighborhoods wouldn’t have their children killed by ~~pit bulls,~~ guns.

Yes, and how do you think that's working out for us?

I never said I would ban pit bulls...

I leave it to others to decide where on the risk-reward chart banning pit bulls falls.

As for this and the rest of your controlling post: you stinking, passive-aggressive Pontius Pilate. No pit-banning blood on your hands, NO! Leave the hard decisions to others. You are contemptible. You don't know what you're talking about.

You shouldn't have any neighbors, Mr. Busy-Body Dictator of the World.

Your neighbor's dog brutally murdered? Drama queen. I don't believe you, and even if it's true (doubtful), it's anecdotal; do you know what that means?