We’re on the same page. It’s definitely the human owner at fault.
You can’t make them buy a bond, because many of the nimrods that own this breed are judgement proof.
There is a major difference between a poodle and a pit bull. You can’t have tigers in your backyard either. Pit bulls require more of their owners than most owners can muster. So, since these owners can’t be responsible for their pets, you have a number of unpalatable options:
1. You can’t shame people into not having them, because the owners swear they can handle their animals right up until they chew up some jogger running by.
2. You can’t jail the owners, because the cost of prosecuting the idiots, regardless of breed, is high, and when it goes to a jury, chances are Betty White will be on the freakin’ jury and both the dog, and the owner, will get pleaded down to a wrist slap. No restitution will be made, because, again, the owner is a derelict who couldn’t meet their first set of primary obligations, which was to protect the community from their pets.
3. Because we are dealing with idiots, it almost assures you have to pass another law. Either you have to ban the breed, or you have to pass mandatory minimums for first offenders. You have to create enough disincentives for idiots such that they won’t want to own a pit bull. Tough to do.
4. There may not be a ‘vicious breed’ but there are breeds more disposed to being vicious. There are also breeds, that even though they aren’t ‘vicious’, are so inherently dangerous that you can’t risk having them around. The pit bull is one of those breeds.
‘Pit bulls require more of their owners than most owners can muster.’
I don’t dispute most of what you wrote, except for this.
A puppy is a puppy. And just as in the case with children, 98% of the future behavior is based on what they learn and experience via home and overall enviroment.
There really isn’t any difference in this concept. You raise a dog to be ‘responsible’ (as its own limitations allow, of course) same as a child.
Put a child in a cage, go days without any affection, and you get a very ugly teenager, and worse adult in my experience.
Same goes for dogs, all breeds.