Your post is well taken, but how many times after an attack has the owner said what a sweet dog he was right up until the attack.
A lot of dogs aren't well socialized, and some are intentionally made mean. At the age of 3, I was badly mauled by a medium-sized hound dog who "never hurt anybody". It tore up my face and I still have the scars. He was normally a friendly dog, but had not been socialized with kids.
I just don't accept that American Pit Bull Terriers are naturally some kind of "killing machines" likely to go off at any time. If properly socialized, they are great dogs.
I think that the whole underworld of fighting dogs is truly evil and it disgusts me what those jerks do to innocent dogs.
Sounds just like the mothers/grandmothers of the gang banging gang members when they get convicted of murder after drive-by shooting and killing some innocent toddler in the crossfire: "He's mah babby - he ain't never done nuthin' wrong in his life - such a good boy.....He be innocent...