[elmer fudd]

OK, then if your pit bull kills my kid, you should be up for premeditated murder charges.

That should be true of any breed of dog, provided that your kid wasn't doing something illegal like trespassing in a fenced and marked enclosure or a residence. Dog owners need to take responsibility for their dogs regardless of the breed. The real problem are the idiots that keep aggressive dogs as a way to demonstrate their machismo. It doesn't matter whether it's a pit, a tosaken or a rottweiler. If you get an aggressive dog, neglect it, don't train it and don't properly contain it, you've got a time bomb on your hands. Unfortunately, this is common among some groups of people.

[familyop]

"That should be true of any breed of dog, provided that your kid wasn't doing something illegal like trespassing in a fenced and marked enclosure or a residence."

According to the court record, the 2-year-old in my former neighborhood climbed a 12-foot fence. The two pit bulls behind the fence then killed the child. The owner went down for second degree murder. It's not legal in that State to kill anyone only for trespassing. ...same in most states.

Being put in prison for good probably kept the pit bull owner from being killed.

[familyop]

And BTW, yes, the part about the 2-year-old climbing the 12-foot fence was weird. But that’s what the court record and local newspapers said. That was back during the ‘90s. And under the circumstances, some lack of tolerance might have been involved.