My brother and I grew up with pits, and we have all of our toes and other body parts. So do all of our friends who played with our dogs. They were part of the family.
I've got pit mixes now, and the only abuse that has happened are their previous owners beating them, not them showing aggression towards humans.
And so what of it? The damned things are worse than handgrenades. A handgrenade can't pull its own pin. A pitbull can and will go off for no reason at all.
I'd rather have a handgrenade in the house.
Other breeds of dogs are beaten, kicked and mistreated probably just about as often as pit bulls - and yet, it seems that 98% of the killings and maimings in reported dog attacks are done by pit bulls. Most of the time, too, the owners stand outside the hospital where their children are being stitched up (if they live) vowing and declaring that "Snarl" has always been a "member of the family" and "wouldn't hurt a flea, but he just snapped and we can't understand what happened - and they ain't a puttin' ol' "Snarl" to sleep, we're a takin' him back home whar he belongs".
2 + 2 doesn't add up to 16.
The pit bull is evidently a breed that has a place, but it is decidedly NOT hovering over a crib.
You were lucky that the loaded gun didn't go off, but excuse some of us for not choosing to have a herd of pit bulls for pets. - It's a free country, and enough pit bull afficianados are out there in it to insure adequate numbers of comfy homes for hordes of pits and plenty of kid's faces and toeseys for them to chew on when they're having a bad day. Having said that, ferret's teeth are sharp, too. So, who knows?
I've know pit owners defend their dogs till the dogs turned on their owners ...
Might as well save your fingers, the rabid "Pit Bull" haters here are beyond reasoning with.
I responded to their insane fury by rescuing a young male Bull Terrier* for myself.
I've had them before, and Bull-Dozer is possibly the smartest dog I have ever seen or owned.
He's my constant companion, and so friendly my biggest worry is that some idiot will try to steal him.
*He's never seen a fighting pit, so "Pit Bull" hardly fits.