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I have no emotional need to deny that dogs bred for hundreds of years to be aggressive are in fact, aggressive dogs.

Therefore I have no need to fantasize about conspiracies regarding dog species nor to make wild claims that it’s the war on drugs that has resulted in pit bulls killing more Americans every year than all other breeds. All over the world, nations are banning pits and pit breed relatives based on the medical/mortuary outcome - but that no doubt is part of the grand conspiracy you believe exists against pits in the United States - so our war on drugs has apparently infected the breed perception in Europe and South America!

Lame, lame, lame use of amusement parks, automobile drivers, etc. If one amusement park killed far more people than all other amusement parks - OSHA and other organizations would take an interest and if that one amusement park killed an American every 22 days (on average) the way pits do - I assure you legal recourse would close that park down. One model of automobile that spontaneously killed drivers at a rate of one every 22 days? The cost, the carnage, the death toll, the number of police calls and the need for the police to shoot ONE BREED as often as they do just to protect human life and you try to compare it to amusement parks?
You have it made, really. Every time a pit kills a family member, you demote the family members to ‘irresponsible people’ or ‘thugs’. Bad enough they have a family member die because the beloved family pet went into rage mode - a trait too many of that breed evince- but then the pro pit lobby says “Tsk tsk tsk...should have been responsible.” or just paints all owner/victim families as thugs. No proof needed really - just attack the victim and...for good measure...throw amusement parks into the mix. And if you do that often enough - maybe we’ll just forget that the article we just read about a pit bull killing and eating part of a baby! In fact, if you throw in automobiles and the War on Drugs maybe we’ll be too distracted to consider that this breed kills more than other breeds especially given it’s only 5% of the population. Disproportionate death rate - meet ‘amusement parks.’

“It’s NOT the breeds fault, but the owners, and the patrons of the church of perpetual panic (AKA the mainstream media) definitely seem to have infected you with their hysteria.”

Yeah, I see what you are selling, but as more cities and countries adopt pit bans and breed specific laws, it aint workin’.

More and more the pro pit lobby starts to resemble CAIR. A Muslim is arrested on a flight for trying to ignite a substance in his shoe and CAIR posts a lament that ‘hysteria’ is driving people to falsely malign or mistrust Muslims. On a thread where we read of another family member killed by a pit bull - you’re just sure my concern regarding this breed is hysteria. Well - you have that psychological need to distort reality - I can just point to the documented, unprovoked deaths and maimings that make this the most lethal dog in the US and causes it to end up on BSL across the world. And the pro pit lobby does not want any law to interfere with their pleasure in owning this specific breed despite that death toll. Priorities.

Regarding my 99+% post: Evidently you’ve not heard of hyperbole and exaggeration, though you seem to be using it yourself.

Any avoidable death is tragic. Look at the numbers YOU posted and tell me again how rational you’re being:

32 people died by dog in 2009, 14 of them (40%) by a pitbull.

That’s one in TEN MILLION by dogs overall, one in TWENTY-ONE MILLION via pitty, which is likely overestimated since any dog that weighs over 25 lbs is considered a pitbull by the press.

You or anyone is THREE TIMES more likely to get struck by lightning (one in 7 million chance if outdoors on an open field in a thunderstorm last I checked) than attacked by a pitty, but because YOU don’t like them, you see fit to attack those who appreciate the dog for what it is.

I like your strawman regarding how “insensitive” it was for me to post TRUTH about what these dogs actually are. They were and are used by those who know them as guardians, minders and companions for children. They are misused and maltreated by those who fear them.

Face it, if a dog that was bred for fighting was the LEAST bit human-aggressive, that dog would immediately be destroyed, simply because the handlers value their own lives. To think otherwise is to be self-deluding.

Literally millions of these dogs have and do go through their lives without harming anyone. There are some few that have issues usually related to poor training and handling, but with a firm hand and good technique, all but the most incorrigible are salvageable. Look at Michael Vick’s canine victims and see for yourself. The story is 5 pages long, btw. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/magazine/12/22/vick.dogs/

And just for a change of pace, here’s a little ditty about this dog. Look at all the damned fools who appreciate this breed. Linda Blair even puts in an short appearance with hers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGT2apOlKw