Surrounded by 8 pit pulls today, I barely escaped with my life

[BainsBane]

83. some are bred for fighting

Where breeders take the most aggressive dogs and breed them with each other. But others aren't bred that way. Some are just dogs. There are other breeds with aggressive streaks, German Shepard's, for example. That aggression is central to the breeds utility as police and military dogs. Pits have incredibly powerful jaws, which can make them more deadly when they do turn aggressive.

I guess I don't object to your idea of not allowing further breeding of pits, but I suspect that may not change much. Each generation the media focuses on a new breed of danger. When I was a kid is was the Doberman, then the Rotweiler. Is a pit any more aggressive than those breeds? I don't know if that's the case. It may be media hysteria. I'd have to see actual data to be convinced. Most of what people and communities operate from in banning pits is fear rather than sound information.