[Carling]

We don’t allow the average citizen to keep a lion or a wolverine as a pet without special permits.

Why a pit bull? Because it is canine? I can’t have a full-bred grey wolf as a pet. I want one.

[familyop]

"We don’t allow the average citizen to keep a lion or a wolverine as a pet without special permits.

Why a pit bull? Because it is canine? I can’t have a full-bred grey wolf as a pet. I want one."

That's a great argument. Exotic dangerous animals are expensive to contain. So should common dangerous animals require such containments.

Pit bull zombies also often use analogies between pit bulls and things that require human assistance in order to be dangerous (e.g. firearms). Pit bulls have minds of their own--minds corrupt by way of intentional and wrongful misbreeding.

[kaehurowing]

Yes, there has never been a legal “right” for someone to keep an inherently dangerous animal, whether under the English common law or under American law that developed from the English law. The government has always had the right to ban animals that are dangerous to public health, safety and welfare.