It’s legal to own a dog as long as the dog has not harmed anyone. In most areas of the country it is illegal to own a lion without a special permit.
A DOG is a domestic animal. A lion is a wild animal. There are laws to punish those who negligently allow their dogs to harm others. If a dog has not harmed anyone, and if its responsible owner restrains it properly and keeps it licensed and trained, the likelihood it will injure another person is very low, regardless of how the dog looks.
The dogs that injure people are owned by irresponsible, careless people who do not raise their animals properly nor train them. Some of these people take pleasure in making the dog aggressive toward others and they need to be dealt with by legal means.
Silly argument. It’s of little consolation whether a child’s face is eaten off by a lion or a dog, much more likely by a pit than a lion, incidentally. We’ve had several infants killed by pits here locally. Gee, it must be a great consolation to the mothers and fathers of those children knowing it was the irresponsible owner’s fault and not the dog. You people need to know the difference between legitimate police power and true oppression.