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"Maybe. But it's also true that Pit bulls and Rottweilers account for most fatal attacks on humans. It's a chance some of us are not willing to take."

Yup. A young guy down the street from me had a pit bull when he moved into the rental he lived in. The guy was a body-builder and not particularly friendly to the neighbors. His dog kept getting out and running in the neighborhood. Several of us warned him to keep his dog confined, but he just blew us off.

Well, one day, that dog went into my next-door neighbor's back yard and attacked their 12-year-old cocker spaniel, which was tied up on a tether. I heard my neighbor's wife screaming, and headed next door, after grabbing the Mossberg. I shot the pit bull, but it had already killed the poor little cocker.

Next thing I know, the pit bull's owner shows up and starts telling me what he's going to do to me. Funny, that, since he was unarmed and I still had 4 rounds in the Mossberg. I explained to him why he wasn't going to do anything to anyone and told him to get out of my neigbor's yard.

Next, I called the owner of the house and explained what had happened. The guy moved out the next day.

I DO NOT LIKE PIT BULLS. THEY ARE ALL SUSPECT.

I DO NOT LIKE PIT BULLS. THEY ARE ALL SUSPECT.

That is how I feel about them.

I used to live in an area where there were a lot of pit bulls. I suppose they can be fine dogs, but they rarely are. Nine times out of ten they were owned by sociopaths.

It wasn't funny. If a child or another dog got attacked, it was almost always by a pit bull.

If it weren't for the laws, I'd kill every one I saw.

I don't trust pit bulls. One young female pit, whose owner claimed was just a sweetie, attacked another neighbor's German Shepherd (another neighbor and I witnessed this). The pit was allegedly being walked by the owner's young daughter and ripped the leash out of her hands in a second and went after the Shepherd, who was leashed and being walked by his owner. The Shepherd's owner managed to pull the pit off of his dog, kicked the pit a few times & told the kid to take her dog in the house. A few days later, the same pit, unleashed, came running out between the houses & raced across the street in an attempt to get my furball Lhasa. I grabbed my dog & got him up & out of the way & beat--and I mean REALLY beat--the pit over the head with the retractable leash handle and yelled my head off. The owner came out of his house & tried to tell me the pit wouldn't hurt anybody. Uh huh. I told him BS & said I had seen his dog attack another dog a few days earlier--and he's either going to get sued, have his dog taken away or both.