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Originally Posted by braisler
I hate reactionary laws like this. They get voted onto the books by government hoping to placate the rampaging parental hordes after some toddler gets mauled or killed. It is a farce. It never gets featured in the story by the press, but my spidey-sense tells me that 9 times out of 10 the toddler who got mauled was probably doing something unsupervised with the dog that they should not have been....
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Actually, it was several toddlers.
I personally know one of them.
She was playing IN HER OWN BACK YARD when the pit bull from next door got out and came into her yard. She was horribly mauled on the face and has since required several plastic surgeries. But she'll never be the same.
As I recall, at least one other case did not involve a family pet or doing "something unsupervised".
So while I am still on the fence regarding this particular law, I for one do NOT like pit bulls. This makes it difficult for me because our day care owner happens to have one (one of the "sweet" ones).
Unfortunately, this particular breed has a track record of being more unstable than other breeds.