[cspackler]

For godssake, most of you would never accept the argument you are using for dogs if we were talking about guns, would you?

I've never had my neighbor's gun try to break through a fence to shoot me... When will you people admit that there is a difference between owning a dangerous dog and a gun. I can gaurantee the safety of my gun by locking it up. You can never fully gaurantee the safety of a pit bull.

[shoffma1999]

So what I am getting from many of the people claiming owning a gun is totally different from owning a pitbull is that because the pitbulls are mobile and thinking creatures, and dangerous they should be eliminated, but the gun is ok because it is a machine. If this is your rationale - I guess you would condone the genocide of black males in America? Because, statistically black males are a very small portion of the population (less than 10%) similar to pitbulls, but commit nearly 50% of all violent crime (similar to pitbulls at 30%). My question is - are we going to be in the business of exterminating everyhting that is statistically dangerous, or are we going to use are heads - and deal with specific situations using case specific means?