[Flying Dutchman]

If you had been raising and breeding great whites for the last few hundred years, and they were a domesticated animal, then I would take your example. Since they are not, your example is flawed.

If you want to argue that a pit bull has the ability to cause great damage, as compared to a poodle, then you are right. Were you and I, and others, disagree is you get ability mixed with inherited tendancy. If you were to get a pit bull as a pup and raise it with another dog, or dogs, or a cat or whatever, it would grow up thinking that was normal and not be aggressive. It's nature is not to be aggressive, it is to be tenacious in whatever it does, be that fighting, gaurding a house or just being a member of a pack. My truck is designed to tow a trailer, my car is not. A pit bull is desinged to be strong, a poodle is not. Aggressive and mistreated and misraised pits are dangerous, no doubt. On that I will not argue. The breed itself is not dangerous, that is the difference. Like I said, if the city was having a problem with people raising and owning aggressive Rottwieler type dogs then the ban would be aimed at them. While I will not argue that certain breeds have a greater than normal tendancy to be aggressive due to their dominant nature, pit bulls are not in that group since they are not a dominant behavior type dog. They couldn't be and still be used in fighting because they would not listen too or follow their owners instructions. Ever see when they raid or capture these dogs? They are domicile towards people because that is their nature, to be followers not leaders.