If your family doesn't have the basic level of responsibility to keep and train a dog properly, they shouldn't have guns in their house either. If they've ruined the dog enough already to where it's human aggressive they need to give it up for adoption or have it put down. THEY messed up, not the dog. They're living creatures, not gadgets like iphones. You can't just buy one and expect it to automatically do what you want it to do. There's no "app for that."

People who want to look tough are the ones getting pit bulls because people think they're dangerous. They want to look tough. Just like people wearing the stupid sagging pants. That doesn't mean you're a gang member, just because you forgot a belt though. . . If you look at actual statistics (you know, *reality*), they're far less likely to bite or attack a person than most of the other popular breeds. There are over 5 times as many pit bulls in America than German Shepherds and more fatal attacks have been made by the Shep's than the pits. I'll let you do the math on which is the more dangerous breed. Get back to me when you have a better argument.

ALL dogs are "inherently dangerous" if not properly trained. ALL OF THEM. Ban one breed, ban them all. That's the difference between a domesticated animal and a wild one. You still have to do some work to keep them domesticated, even if they're a "pet." I can almost guarantee you two things about this incident: (A) The dogs were unaltered males and (B) They were either trained to be aggressive or left to fend for themselves in somebody's yard without supervision/training. Get your dog fixed and crate train them and you'll eliminate 99.99% of all problems dogs get blamed for. FACTS: 97% of dogs involved in fatal attacks in 2006 were not spayed/neutered. 78% of those dogs were maintained not as pets but as guard dogs, fighting, breeding, "looking tough," etc. If you look at the number of fatal dog attacks for a breed versus the numbers of that breed in existence, the "pit bull" breeds are FAR less likely to cause a fatal attack than dogs like Chow Chows, German Shepherds, Rottweilers, Great Danes, Dobermans, and St. Bernards. By factors of ten or more in most cases. Now, yes, this is a separate issue from non-fatal bites. And thank you for bringing that up! England banned "pit bulls" in the 90s and guess what? The number of dog bites STAYED THE SAME while the numbers of the "pit bull" breeds went down. And your "safe family dogs" like Labs, Collies, and Cocker Spaniels bite at far higher rates than the "dangerous dogs." These incidents always follow media coverage. Whichever dog breed becomes the fad "tough" dog gets bought up by people trying to be tough. Those dogs get trained that way and then you have more incidents. It always cycles around from the Dobermans, German Shepherds, Rottweilers, and "pit bull" terriers. But hey, people are stupid and will blame things on how people and things look, not on any facts. If you want to stop bites, ban toddlers too, they bite far more than dogs do.