21% of fatal dog bites are pitbulls according to one statistic. That's 60 pitbull attacks in 20 years, or 3 a year. Out of MILLIONS of dogs. Over 20 years, it's out of MILLIONS OF PITBULLS to be sure.
There are approximately 117 accidental gun deaths a year (last FBI figues I saw), out of millions of gunowners. I consider that a pretty potent figure. Why are people accidentally getting shot? Irresponsibility. It would take 10 years of fatal dog attack statistics to reach that number, and even longer for 117 attacks to be committed by pitbulls.
Same can be said of dog attacks. I see a perfect parallel. I can assure everyone that my gun will never be used in an accidental death...and neither will my dog ever be the cause of a fatal attack. 100% guarantee. But I'd have to offer only a 99.9% guarantee on everyone else, given the numbers.
The ignorance and witch hunting surrounding APBTs will probably never go away, it's obvious just from reading this thread. I just read one up there from somebody who would "take out" my dog if I moved into his neighborhood.