[EBH]

It isn’t just an image issue. Breeding has a lot to do with it. The dog fight breeders have ruined the dog.

[GBA]

Of course. Breeding is a factor, training a factor, the owner's experience, aptitude and compatibility factors as well.

I'm looking for clues to a bigger picture. I see this as just one example among many and those factors are all used somehow as steps to take this example to a destination.

But what is at work selling US the travel brochure and maps? Who's driving and how do I get off of whatever this is?

If you look closely, what is happening to the pit bull is very similar to what is happening to guns. Both were, not all that long ago, a common/accepted part of American life.

Now both are things inspiring fear and "should be banned!"

Different, yet the same play. Curious.