To be honest with you my friend it is more about the owner than the breed.
But owners are not as easy to regulate, so there you go.
Bad owners of all breeds abound, but few other breeds are as susceptible to the effects of bad ownership as pit bulls seem to be.
You can’t breed the herding instinct out of Border Collies, or the retrieving instinct out of Retrievers, or the instinct in any other animal out of them. The best that can be hoped for is some kind of limited control of those instincts.
So I don’t believe that the aggression that was bred into pits can be that easily controlled, good owner notwithstanding. With a bad owner, it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
It’s the combination of breeding and instinct and bad owners that make pits in general a bad risk. The good owner with the well trained and socialized pit is too few and far between to take the chance that any random pit one sees if one of those few. Seeing how most people are raising their kids, I certainly don’t think for a minute that they’re going to do any better with their dogs than they do with their kids.
Responsible pit owners are just going to have to live with the reputation that the overwhelming majority of bad pit owners give them. That’s life.