I have just come from the scene of a pit bull attack on a six-year old child. The boy and his mother were walking their newly adopted (2 weeks) pit bull when it attacked. The dog was pulled off the boy by a neighbor and was loose when I arrived. They had adopted it from a shelter two weeks earlier. It was a large pit cross,(boxer, maybe) perhaps 80 pounds, and it had cut-back ears, and numerous bite scars on it's body. In other words, this idiot (single) mom had adopted someone's cast-off fighting dog and tried to turn it into a family pet. The boy had puncture woulds to his back, a torn ear, and more serious, penetrating bite punctures to the back of the head, and severe facial lacerations.
All I ask of the pit bull community is that they STFU about how gentle their dogs really are. All I ask of the insurance industry is that they run an advert about pit bull attacks. All I ask of City and County governments is that they charge pit bull owners more for the licenses to cover the cost of these incessant attacks and to register them.
Pit Bull ownership in the US is often where the "Idiot," "Criminal," and "Sociopath," lines on the graph meet. No need for us to tolerate it, much less subsidize it.