I did see a Golden bite someone once and I think some folks have been bit seriously...though rare.
Goldens are like 70s granola cereal commericals...running thru a sunny meadow with locks glistening and kids squealing and young parents all beaming....chasing a floating frisbee with a big dog grin...that sort of thing
but some of us like guard dogs and like any other dog nowadays unless one lives truly remote...rare in middle TN where I live...then you have to fence or put your dog on a lead or run or in the house or with you...doesn’t matter what sort even though your point is accurate that some dogs can do more damage
in the morning, kids from the neighborhood would walk past my place and down the road a little way to school. after school, the same thing in reverse. it didn’t take my dog long to figure out the schedule. in the morning she would walk to school with the kids and in the afternoon go and walk back. she eventually got the recess and lunch schedule down so she would go there and hang out at those times. one day i was looking for her and i found her running around the play ground with all the kids at lunch time. they had made her the unofficial school mascot. they had a water bowl with her name on it and the whole bit. the kids, the teachers and the principal were all in to it. it was hilarious. unfortunately, the days are gone where these types of things can take place.