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pretty much what gsd said. say i had a breed like a lab or a golden or even a standard poodle and it showed aggression toward me or somebody else. if my lab/golden/poodle bit somebody, i'd personally be facing a whole lot of trouble, but the chances of it affecting people in my whole city/state/country would be very low. not so with pit bulls. one pit bull bite can lead directly to a ban of the breed. there is no way i'd risk being responsible for that.
it almost happened like that in california. a kid was killed because his idiotic parents left him home alone with two unstable bully-looking dogs, and SB861 was spawned. originally it was breed specific against pit bulls. now it's more of a stepping stone to breed specific laws that can be enacted locally. this in a state that, prior to that incident, had laws AGAINST breed specific legislation.
so while i might be more willing to work through something that might be fixable with another breed, there's no way i'd consider it with a pit bull.
the other caveat is that some breeds were bred to be suspicious of strangers and protective of owners, so i'd accept more aggression toward strangers from one of those breeds than i would from a breed that was bred completely to be human friendly.
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