"Girl scarred by pit bull attack asked to leave restaurant" (KFC in Jackson MS)

[brett_jv]

147. Who the hell is saying that? Or ever even WOULD say that?

My wife and have a pit bull though and it's about the sweetest, gentlest, and most loving animal you'd ever want to meet (he's also proudly gay). My mother/father-in-law have one too, as do my brother & sister in law (with two children under 7). All 5 of our nieces and nephews have grown up (the oldest being 11, and these dogs are all around 7-8 yo now) around these dogs, and we've never feared for their safety for one moment. That's because they've been raised properly, and they are not from 'aggressive' stock ... which sadly, do exist (and not JUST with Pits, mind you, they're just the most popular dog people have done this with) because of IDIOTS thinking it's a nifty idea to breed the most aggressive/territorial specimens to produce fighting and/or 'guard' dogs.

All I really need to read from the mauling story to understand what happened is 'Mississippi', 'Trailer', and '10 dogs'. This idiot probably thought it was a good idea to train some of these animals to 'protect the land' or some stupid crap like that. AFAIC it should be expressly illegal to 'train' any animal to 'defend' ANYTHING (or to fight, of course), and the penalties should be STIFF, or to purposefully breed animals to produce an aggressive offspring. There should also be laws regarding how many large dogs a person can own, outside of perhaps professional breeding operations (which should have to be licensed and regulated and inspected) or perhaps on actual working ranches.

IMHO, it's really no more correct to call Pit Bull a 'violent species' than it is to call people of African descent, or Muslims (or any one else you might wanna pick) as 'violent'. It's the exact same kind of stereotyping, involving the same invalid 'sampling' techniques.