If I wanted a dog to kill people, what breed would you recommend? Would a pit bull be one of them? How about a toy poodle?
Since pit bulls were never bred to be human aggressive or to guard, they are far inferior to other breeds better suited mentally for the job. Pit bulls are often stolen because they are not instinctively suspicious, as many guardian breeds are. In many instances, people who have more than a couple of pit bulls (breeders, good or bad) will have another breed of dog to guard them (like american bulldogs, german shepherds, etc.). I would pick one of those dogs over a pit bull any day of the week if I needed a dog willing to bite a person.
For all the millions of idiots out there wanting their pit bull to be that kind of dog, it’s a credit to the breed that all the training and abuse the dogs endure cannot make them into man-killers. It seems that title always goes to dogs that are running loose, chained, intact, or ignored, and that goes for every breed that has taken a human life. Just think about the sheer number of these dogs owned by irresponsible, ignorant people that actually WANT a bad dog, and compare that to the percentage of them that have taken a life. It’s plain to see that the numbers do not complement each other, which is a pretty big sign that the breed in this situation has far less to do with the issue than the person owning it.