See the "pit Bull Placebo" link in post 30. Shall we also say that those who live near other people should not own Bloodhounds and Bulldogs? A Great Dane has a pretty serious bite and some real mass.
As for retrievers having a soft bite, ask solosmoke about the dogs that attacked him. Or about the golden that bit a 3 year olds ear off. Or about the fact that labs are the breed that attacks humans the most in the U.S.
Punishing the owners solves the problem. Making the breed out to be special doesn't.
You keep mentioning the bloodhound as a formerly well known bad breed. I did some checking on the Pit Bull Placebo author and quickly found interesting facts, mainly that she hides truths and outright lies. The bloodhounds you imagine might be the lazy old dog on Hee Haw from years ago, or various slow witted cartoon dogs, which is what she wants. That is the English bloodhound, who has no recorded fatalities in her book. But the actual bloodhounds that were the bad breeds were Cuban bloodhounds and Siberian bloodhounds, bred to chase and kill runaway slaves and prisoners. They are more mastiff or bulldog looking, bred for temperament and purpose rather than form. She tosses all three breeds under the name bloodhound, exactly like pit bull haters toss all those various breeds under pit bull.
This is a fascinating read that exposes some of the author’s lies: http://thetruthaboutpitbulls.blogspot.com/2010/08/scapegoats-part-1-bloodhound.html
And to continually tout that breed temperament test, when it is given at dog clubs and dog shows, but not given to random samples of dogs in alleys and hovels and crack houses makes the results fairly worthless. It’s like taking a lutefisk taste survey at a lutefisk festival. Most will like the taste. But it is hardly representative overall.
Alar and SUVs and gas tanks have little to do with dogs.