Agreed. I know opinion pisses off the pit bull activists, that we that feel this way are ill informed, etc, but I just don't see the point of owning this breed. There are plenty of others to choose from.
I have owned a few different breeds of dogs. My favorite was a German Short Haired Pointer that I had trained so well, I could throw a ball and he would sit and stare at it bouncing away...I would say "go!" and he would rocket after it... I could yell "stay!" as he was almost about to grab it and he would skid for about 8 feet as he went into a sitting position and watched it bounce away from him.
I could be swimming in a lake and call him and he would lunge into the water and swim to me, and I could grab his tail (yep, didn't bob it) and tell him to "go" and he would pull me back into shore.
Whenever I was with him at the river, a park or a lake and a pit-bull came on the scene, I would put him in the truck. I found pit-bull owners often tugged their dogs ears and sic'ed them on other dogs just for the fun of it.
A pit bull is like a loaded gun laying in a playground...an accident waiting to happen.
I've posted before that my son was a victim of a pit bull attack 12 years ago when he was 6 years old. The two college boy owners (renting the house across the road from us) and their girl friends simply couldn't understand why their dog attacked our son literally like a bolt out of the blue. They emphatically assured us that they treated that dog like a precious baby and couldn't imagine it capable of an attack.
Oh, well, a few reconstructive surgeries and twelve years later he's little worse for the wear. If it wasn't for the the high price of the trauma and disfigurement, I would take great satisfaction in knowing these arrogant, high risk taking pit bull owners had to suffer a recurring memory of what they personally brought about in an innocent victims life.
Interesting enough, prior to my son's attack, I was always the kind of person that didn't like to make waves about others' questionable choices. Today, however, when it comes to pit bull discussions, I'm quite comfortable getting in your face about the danger of owning one and am very willing to give good advice to those who find themselves at risk because of the presence of one in their neighborhood.