And outlaw semi-automatic pistols, and revolvers, and rifles, and shotguns, and sling-shots and pea-shooters, and swords, cleavers, knives, cars, booze, cigs, rocks, bricks, water...
BTW, I don't like the breed, but it is the dog's owner to manage the animal. Just as I manage my gun collection and 5,000 rounds of ammo.
But they're constitutionally protected, whereas pitbulls are not.
Agreed. If you raise a dog to be violent, and it hurts someone, you should be tried for assault. If it kills someone, you should be tried for manslaughter.
My dog likes to take my girlfriend's wallet from her backpack and chew on it. I keep joking that we should train him to do that to other people, and she keeps telling me that we'd be responsible for the thefts. Why should it be any different for injuries?
If you can't control a dog with a tendency for aggressive behavior, then get a different dog. Otherwise, it should be your right to own whatever dog you want. If the penalties for training a dog to hurt someone were equal to penalties for hurting someone yourself, then people would take responsibility and no one would need to call for pit bull extermination.
The difference if you leave your guns unattened there is zero possibility they will get out of their safe and run around the neighborhood attacking people. At this point I find it more than a little creepy that there is a shocked pit bull running around SE Portland with a bad attitude.
I think that particular breed as well as one or two others should require the same permit it requires to have a lion or a bear...
I cannot own a lion and keep the animal in a residential neighborhood without tons of insurance and permits. If I could, I would get one just to go around killing pit bulls for the shock and awe... A lion is the king of beasts...