Kentucky woman killed, husband injured in Christmas Eve pit bull attack

[mr_lebowski]

73. And while I don't especially 'like' assault-style rifles, esp. w/o much stricter background checks

Those arguments are not ENTIRELY without merit.

Many 'pit-bull style' dogs have been selectively bred for hostile/aggressive traits, and some people raise them to be mean and/or neglect them, to the point that they just naturally become mean. And yes, a mean pit (or rottie, or german shepard, or doberman, or ...) is a dangerous animal and I understand the need to put some of them down, and REALLY would like to see people go to jail for purposefully breeding any dog breed to be meaner (if that's possible to ascertain) and/or training them to fight. We already have laws against fighting them I think in most places but that's not enough. I would support requiring special permits with higher standards of proof of competency and appropriate accommodations, etc ... for any large-breed dogs that've been known to kill humans, disallowing people with felonies from owning them, etc.

I don't like the fact that people blame the breed ... or think that they're all bad/mean/about to snap and kill us all. People ultimately are responsible for this problem vis-a-vis their actions, not really fair to take it out on the animal. And they're NOT all mean dogs by any stretch. Depends on their lineage and how you raise 'em.