Rule #2 -- Discreetly and humanely murder any pit bulls in your neighborhood when their owners seem even remotely cavalier about the dogs. You owe it to yourself, your neighbors, and to all the kids in the neighborhood.
Rule #3 -- Have a pet door. Because now, its worst vice is what it should have been all along -- that it might admit racoons in the middle of the night that will raid your kitchen!
Do you understand that pit bulls as a whole are a product of their owners? It is not fair to say that they all should be shot. My pit is very popular in our community. Everyone knows him, pets him and talks to him. He is in a locked fence. We do this to protect him from others not the other way around. If someone killed my dog simply because he is a pit bull, it would be as if someone murdered my son in cold blood. Think about it!