Reply #8: These kind of owners need to be criminally charged

[RamboLiberal]

Also all the dogs should be removed from them and they should never be allowed to own dogs ever again! I'm sick of reading stories of these wack job owners dogs mauling and even killing children, elderly, other innocent people and animals. Guess we have to start carrying our guns and pepper spray any time we set foot outside our doors.

Its no wonder cities/counties and states are considering bans on pit bulls even if that may not be the solution to the problem.

Today this is in the news.

Dog attacks prompt cities to look at pit bull bans

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jacqueline Sedlar and her 12-year-old daughter were walking home when the girl peered over a neighbor's fence and a pit bull took a chunk from her eyebrow.

Outraged, Sedlar contacted her city councilman, who introduced an ordinance banning pit bulls. But the mayor vetoed the ban in favor of an alternative "dangerous dog" ordinance that some say will be less effective in preventing attacks.

The controversy in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis exemplifies the struggle communities nationwide face in trying to address dog attacks. Some have banned pit bulls — a broad term that covers several breeds — and other breeds they consider most dangerous. But other communities are trying to "punish the deed, not the breed" with ordinances focusing on dogs with violent histories.

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There's also no reliable data on whether some dogs are more likely to bite than others. A 2000 study cited by the CDC and other health agencies reports pit bull-type dogs were responsible for more bite-related deaths than other breeds from 1979 to 1998, but it cautions that may mean pit bulls are just more common than other types of dogs.

Still, that may help explain why pit bulls are the most frequent targets of proposals to ban or restrict specific breeds of dogs. The American Kennel Club reports 86 such proposals were introduced nationwide in the 2007-08 legislative season. Most were for municipal ordinances. It is not clear how many passed.

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