I do not have Burms, no, but know many who do and even more Retic owners.
Responsible people, all of them.
My heart belongs to Boas, although I do have a few Ball Pythons and one Snow Corn Snake.
FWIW, my life has been spent around “scary beasts” like Dobermanns and large constrictors but it was one, barely bigger than a pony horse, who nearly killed me, just 10 years after Shetland pony out me in the hospital.
I grew up on a farm and know full well how dangerous livestock can be, from milk cows ‘accidentally’ goring you when they swing their heads to flick away a fly, to trampling you or crushing you against a barn wall to vicious sows and flighty horses.
Horses, cattle and pigs can indeed be “predatory”, if you want to describe it that way, and attack on purpose.
Not sure why pit bulls entered the conversation and I don’t know anyone who owns snakes as a “symbol” of anything, so I cannot address that aspect.
Any animal is potentially ‘dangerous’.
Only a fool ever forgets that a critter is a critter.
If nothing else, we can agree on that. Especially if the critter is a reptile.