Incremental encroachment is their MO, and PETA has clearly announced their explicit goal and objective is to ban pits in order to set a precedent and obtain leverage to ultimately outlaw all animal ownership.
I’ve never owned a pit either and feel exactly the same as you.
To see so called conservatives behave this way is troubling.
I do own my first bulldog now though...he is just about ready for his first freeper pic at 7 months now...an incredible hog hunting dog...remarkable..but like any big dog...they have to be managed and socialized.
my first two dogs as a lad were Shepherds...Heidi and Smokey...
i think folks here don’t like who often owns and misuses these dogs....and they have a minor point there