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It is there instinct to attack and kill other animals - not humans. When a pit bull attacks a human there is something else going on besides the dog being a pit bull - same goes for every other dog that attacks a human. Pit bull were bred in the past and sometimes today to fight other dogs and sometimes other types of animals, but that had to be completely loyal to their owners - otherwise the owner wouldn't be able to train and keep the dog. Further, all of the people on this site who whine and cry about banning pit bulls are likely hypocrites. I bet none of these people are whining and crying for guns to be banned - yet they kill and injure people far more than pit bulls. Sorry to quote a line from Spiderman but "with great power comes great responsibility" and many pit bull and gun owners do not have it.

Some years ago Lon Island that was a story about a family pet, a St. Bernard, that for no apparent reaspon turned on the 6 year old girl, to whom the dog previously had seem devoted since birth, and mauled her to death. The dog was shot by police who responded to the scene. When the vet examined the carcass...they found a #2 pencil had been driven through the dog's ear and into the brain.

It is there instinct to attack and kill other animals - not humans. When a pit bull attacks a human there is something else going on

Possibly. But if it your yorkie flips a switch and attacks you could fight it off with a fly swatter. When a pit goes nuts on you you're in trouble.

I bet none of these people are whining and crying for guns to be banned - yet they kill and injure people far more than pit bulls.

Yep. I just read a story about some guns who chased some little girls the other day. The gun went right up and shot her.

Then there was the story about some SUV's who attacked a little boy....

I bet none of these people are whining and crying for guns to be banned - yet they kill and injure people far more than pit bulls.

Actually, Guns kill and injure much less than pit bulls, German shephards, and even Golden retrievers. I've never seen a gun get up and fire by itself.

OK, I'll bite...

I have friends with some space. So I am going to build two kennels. You come by once a week. In one kennel I am going to switch out labradors, retrievers, poodles etc. in the other I am going to switch out pit bulls.

Each week you have to enter one of the kennels.

You won't know who the owners were, you don't know how they have been trained. You may have to fight the dogs for your life, you may not.

Which kennel will you go into week after week? Others or Pit Bulls?

How about you make a list for us of what dogs you are hoping are in the "others" kennel?

The point of a lot of people on this forum are making is that there are a lot of breeds who not only are not vicous, but if even trained to be vicious could not do the damage pit bulls do.

Now guns don't think, they aren't mobile, they don't have thirst or hunger. They don't breed, they can't smell, see or hear. So I don't think anyone is a hypocrite for wanting to ban one and not the other.

And finally, for your grasp on statistics, if we put a pit bull in every home that also has a gun, do you think the statistics on which injures maims and kills more might change? They most certainly would and I am afraid the pit bull would lose.

-- lates
-- jrawk

I bet none of these people are whining and crying for guns to be banned

If a certain make of gun would occasionally get up out of the drawer and chase down and kill a random person who just happened to be walking by, you bet I'd be calling for a ban of that "breed" of gun.