Reply #205: It's a fashion among SOME to have a badass dog.

[baldguy]

Right now, it's the Pit Bull. Soon, it'll be the Rhodesian Ridgeback. Before it was the Doberman and the Rottweiler.

This group of people has ALWAYS been a minority. The great majority of these dogs are bred & trained to be members of a human family & live in human society, and are exceptionally successful in that role.

That being said, the owners should be REQUIRED - morally, legally and financially - to be responsible for the actions of their animals.