"I wish those vicious creatures could be banned." ***WARNING: GRAPHIC***

[DirkGently]

230. What are "these dogs?"

This is the logical disconnect you're having. "These dogs" are not the same as "all of the dogs, everywhere, that anyone may refer to as a 'pit bull.'"

"These dogs" are in reality any powerful animal raised, trained, abused, or encouraged to be dangerous. What exactly do you anticipate could be done vis a vis "pit bulls" in particular? Bear in mind the term refers to three different breeds, their mixes, and anything else anyone refers to by that term.

So you do what? Make it illegal to own a pit bull, Staffordshire Terrier, or American Staffordshire Terrier? Put them all down? Arrest anyone found to have one?

And that will do what? After all the normal, healthy, well-socialized dogs have been eliminated, do you think the thugs and street breeders will have to stop keeping vicious animals? They won't grab a Mastiff or German Shepherd, or Rottweiler, or Presa Canario, or Akita, or Rodesian Ridgeback, or any of a dozen other breeds, and abuse and train them to be savage as well?

Are you prepared to destroy every breed of dog bred for guarding sheep or policework or guard duty, until there are no dogs in the world that, trained and socialized accordingly, could hurt a human being?

How do you plan to measure what breed a mixed-breed dog is, by the way? Will there be mandatory DNA testing? If a dog looks like a pit, but really is a lab / Shepherd mix, do they have to go as well? Do you understand that a lot of vicious dogs are of completely unknown breeding in the first place?

And aren't you the person who thinks Australian Shepherds are great, by the way? Given the savagery and destruction wrought by these needlessly powerful, prey-driven dogs, are you prepared to see them eliminated as well?

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_sarasota_manatee/bradenton/deputies-man-steps-in-to-help-13-year-old-boy-being-attacked-by-dogs-both-bitten

BRADENTON, Fla. - Two Australian Shepherd dogs are the Grinches who managed to ruin the Christmas holiday for Justin Curtis and his family.
The dogs left him with stitches and on crutches after attacking him on Christmas Eve as he tried to give the mailman a letter his father forget to send out.
"As soon as they got close enough they just sank their teeth right into my right leg," said Justin.
On his bike, Justin tried to fend the dogs off. It didn't work and they ended up dragging him to the ground. During the attack they bit him six times. A bite to his left calf was so bad it exposed muscle.