Another pitbull kills, this time a little girl

[GoingPostal]

Pit bulls have been banned and regulated in entire countries, provinces, cities. This has done nothing to stop irresponsible people from acquiring and breeding them and nothing to change dog bite stats. Jack russels, Pomeranians, Dachshunds, etc have all killed small children, it's not a vicious dog issue so much as owner responsibility in most cases. Whatever the popular "bad dog" is, has more attacks and bites because of rampant breeding and poor ownership. Rottweilers, GSDs, Dobermans, Bloodhounds all went through the same thing in various decades, The Pit Bull Placebo has some very interesting info on how registration numbers jumped crazily for those breeds during their vicious dog phase and we all know only a small percentage of dogs bred are registered with a reputable org. anyways. Any dog can cause damage, they have teeth after all but the number of people killed by dogs yearly is extremely low and if you look into such cases, most of them had red flags all over and were preventable. The last child killed by a "pit bull" in my state was an intact dog with a long history of vicious attacks that they had chained up in their basement with no food or water along with their female and litter, the kid went down to pet the puppies. Anyone in their right mind would have taken those pups and euthed them as well but doubt that happened and it's hardly a rarity that people breed their human aggressive or unstable dog, especially the type that want a "guard" dog.

FWIW I have 3 pit bull mutts, all adopted as adults with unknown pasts who love people and children as the breed should. They have a combined weight of 150#, APBT are not a large breed dog. They are fixed, utd on shots, licensed with my city and yet you are saying should be further regulated. Kind of amusing considering in my neighborhood I have one guardy EM, a human aggressive Chi, a doxie mutt who has attacked other dogs, charged me and my friends on multiple occasions barking and growling, a Weim who is never leashed that chases and barks at people besides crapping wherever it wants. I'm the only responsible law abiding dog owner on the block, with friendly dogs but you feel they should be judged on their appearance instead of behavior. Who is going to pay for and enforce such laws exactly? Are the current dog laws enforced where you live?