Funny how you pick and choose what parts of my post you resond to. You don't trust the CDC, well neither do I all that much, but in the absence of any other source, I'll say that they have the best data available, and they have no particular axe to grind about one breed over the other.
You either deliberately missed my point about anecdotal evidence or didn't understand it, because anecdotal evidence is exactly what I think should NOT be used to judge things.
We can disagree on things about what color is best for cars, how much one should spend on a trip to the restaurant, etc, and this is simply different opinions, but where there is actualy factual evidence, to take the opposite viewpoint from what the evidence shows isn't a difference of opinion, but the denial of reality. You can rationalize it away with the (somewhat justified) view that the CDC isn't all that accurate, but they're certainly more accurate in showing a pattern than your fortunately good experience with dogs on the dangerous list. You can google "dog bite statistics" and every source I've seen lists pit bulls and rotweilers and breeds which cause more deaths and visits to the ER than any other.
I was brought up on a ranch, and haven’t lived in a city in over 13 years-I live around people who don’t really care what goes on there, or the opinion of people there. Maybe it is a redneck thing.
I do not know anyone who has ever had a kid attacked by a Pit, Rottie, or any dog besides a Chihuahua-and that made the local paper-it happened because a parent had left a 6 year old alone with a visiting relative’s ill tempered little dog. I don’t like those little purse dogs, but this was the fault of the parent, not the purse dog.
As an aside, the CDC is one of the agencies that collects stats-real or manipulated-to support gun control-that is not an agency I trust to use the best data available for anything but their own purposes and agenda.