Pits are inherently dangerous imo. My brother’s Jack Russell was attacked by one last week and was badly injured. It was an unprovoked attack. The pit had already killed the neighbors poodle on her front porch. My brother killed a pit last week thinking it was the one but it was not. The killer is still on the loose. My brother has had pits in the past and fully admits, their temperment can escalate. I don’t know what study you read those stats in but I’ve never seen agressive Beatles, or goldens. I can only speak about what I know and read.
I was joshing with chet but don’t have a complaint about his postings.
No offense to your brother (I feel terrible for his loss and glad that he was man enough to take care of business when he saw another pit running loose) but the thing is that any dog improperly handled can get ramped up aggression. If a ghetto poser fights his dog or trains it to be aggressive, it will be. If he gets a dog that needs two hours of exercise a day and frequent human interaction and leaves it alone chained in the yard seven days a week, it will get aggressive. That's what's happening with most, if not all, the Pits we're reading about in the news, and none of it is inherent to the breed.
Solosmoke has posted interesting stuff about how in the early part of the last century the media was campaigning to get rid of German Shepherds for the same reasons Pits are now in the news, So I'm going to ping him in.
Solo, can you provide your pdf link to Outlaw Woman? She has an open mind.