You may have a point there. It just must be that the vast majority of pitbull owners are irresponsible. I mean, who ELSE would want to bring a breed that's well-known as a fighting dog into their house? With children?
I gets the feeling you're just a Fate-tempter. You've heard all the negatives from all the 'dummies' and their 'irrational' beliefs about pitbulls, so you have to go and prove society wrong, eh? I'd guess the parents of that 6 YO girl were thinking the same thing.
On a side note, the pits I've dealt with have been, without doubt, the dumbest, most stubborn, and plainly unpredictable dogs I've ever met.
Yes Pit Bulls where bred for fighting. Their strength, tenacity, smarts and size have all beens used for negative things in the past and present. Pit Bulls are easily trained and have a large desire to please people. Unfortunately many people use this for horrible things. Pit Bulls where created to be completely trust worthy around children and adults, while having the ability and drive needed to bull bait, bear bait, hog hunt and dog fight (I am against all these cruel sports). The parents to the child in this story probably never took the dogs out of their back yard once and they probably never took them to even one training lesson with a professional. So this means these dogs would be unsocialized and untrained and any dogs without socialization and training are unpredictable with there behavior, no matter the breed. I'm sorry the parents didn't know better. We have way to many people breeding and not educating the buyers on the breeds they purchase( this goes for all breeds). I also want to point out to you that Collies are not as safe as you think they are, at the hospital my sister works at last year there was 4 different attacks on children caused by Collies. There was 8 caused by Golden Retrievers. Not even one Pit Bull attack has been reported in the last 5 years. Pit Bulls are the number one owned breed in my area. I guess I'm lucky that the people in my city are responsible Pit Bull owners and care about socializing and training their American Pit Bull Terriers.