What is clear to me is that 'almost' all defenders and a large number of those who campaign against Pit Bull & Rottweilers abandon clear & logical arguments in favor of first person accounts and lists of examples to support their own subjective opinions. (Why, you'd think it was about race, religion or politics or something!)

To some, it may well be all of them.

Several years ago the NSW govt decided that pit bulls (favoured by many as dogs for hunting both pigs and kangaroos, usually in packs where the dogs ran the target animal down and mauled it until the owner dispatched it with a firearm) needed to be specially registered. A friend of mine had access to the details of applicants for registration and discovered that something like 90% of the applicants came from one particular part of Sydney's suburbs rather than being more widespread over the whole state. The generally rednecked attributes of that part of Sydney was regarded as at least "associative" in the statistical sense,; some cynics regarded it as "causative".

Personally, although I had good experiences with a cocker spaniel when a child, I resisted having companion animals of any sort, even though other stats indicate I'd live longer if I kept them. My missus and I were given a fox terrier-chihuahua cross shortly after we arrived in our current neck of the woods and I was emphatic about keeping it outside when Daughter #1 was an infant; I'd long known about pack status. It became a liability when we were staying in sheep country and was sent to Melbourne to become a lapdog with the inlaws. Nowadays I keep dogs and cats off the property as I much prefer macropods and the smaller marsupials (all of which are and must remain "Wild" animals) around me, all of which are in fear of carnivores.

Cheers, Rowan