My grandparents got a pit bull for my father when he was a young child. At the time they lived on our family farm, and he was about 7. The year was 1940 and the breed had not been destroyed by irresponsible breeders. Long story short, he told me about 3 teenage boys riding by his house, He was outside with his dog- the Pit. These boys had 3 German Sheppards with them and when they saw my dad playing in the yard by himself they commanded their dogs to attack my dad. They didn’t see his dog, who was sitting behind a tree. My dad said before those 3 dogs had a chance to get to him, his dog lunged from behind the tree and snapped the necks of the 3 dogs within seconds. The boys took off on their bikes, and his dog chased them down the street. He always loved the breed but my mother would never allow us to have one because even as early as the 70’s Pits were being bred for nefarious purposes.
You owe your earthly existence to a pit bull.
As for breeding, I think of the type of people who must have bred those three boys that tried to have our father harmed or killed by those German Shepherds. Breeding of such boys to me is the greater danger.
BTW German Shepherds are great dogs. Yes, they can kill and maim but they are controllable more than pit bulls.
I once walked down a country road and walked through a field to shortcut around an intersection. A German Shepherd came out of nowhere with teeth exposed, snarling. I stepped back on the road and the German Shepherd stopped right at the property line, That dog knew precisely where the line was. It kept barking and snarling at me but wouldn’t come on the road to attack me. Finally, there was a whistle from someone at the farmhouse of the property and the dog stopped barking snarling, turned around and ran back.
I don’t think pit bulls would be so easy to control.