Keep trying to make me out as worse. :-D The best you can come up with for me is that I behaved the same way as Wyatt Earp. If he feared for his life, then I feared for mine. It's really that simple.
Actually, he feared for the life of his six-year-old daughter, knowing that he would not likely be there for her the next time the two Pit Bulls came into his back yard.
The more dangerous an animal you have, the greater responsibility you have to keep them away from other people and off of other people's property.
That a man would not be willing to endanger his children in order to give someone else multiple chances to restrain their animals doesn't strike me as unreasonable.
Different breeds of dogs have different dispositions, if they did not men would not have spent so much time and effort to create them. A Pit Bull is not a defacto killing machine, but the burden of proof is on the owner of the dog.