But the point is, they're unpredictable.

I don't know if Karin Campbell of Colleyville is just ignorant, or if she's a couple of eggs short in her nest. She thinks pit bulls get a bad rap. She says everytime a story about a pit bull attack is printed, it "feeds the nation's fear of this breed." Well, yeah!

Karin says, "There are many pit bulls that are living with families as loving pets; many are therapy dogs, comforting the sick." You miss the point, Karin. Pit bulls are UNPREDICTABLE. One can be the loving family pet one minute, and the monster attacking the baby the next. Karin says they don't print it everytime another breed attacks. How does she know? My guess is that the reason you don't see as many stories about attacks from other breeds is because there just aren't as many attacks from other breeds.
From 2005 to 2011, pit bulls killed 128 Americans, about one citizen every 20 days. Of these attacks, 51% (65) involved a family member and a household pit bull. In the first 8 months of 2011, nearly half of those killed by a pit bull were the dog's owner. And that doesn't include all the people who survived pit bull attacks.

Pit bulls frequently attack without provocation or warning.  For instance, a pit bull may not growl, bare its teeth or offer a direct stare before it strikes. According to expert Randall Lockwood, pit bulls are also liars. In a 2004 law enforcement training video, taped when Lockwood was vice president for research and educational outreach for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), he shares the following story:


". . .I was investigating three pit bulls that killed a little boy in Georgia. When I went up to do an initial evaluation of the dog's behavior, the dog came up to the front of the fence, gave me a nice little tail wag and a 'play bow' -- a little solicitation, a little greeting. As I got closer, he lunged for my face."

Another case belying a pit's suitability as a therapy animal: Peter Borcheldt is an animal behavior expert. He was training a pit bull for a client. Upon assuring a man he passed on the street that the dog was friendly, the dog suddenly broke free from him and attacked the man in the groin.

Karin dares the newspaper to print a picture of a "pitty" in the arms of a child or visiting the sick. Here's a suggestion, Karin -- why don't you take a photo of your child holding the pitty and send it in? As far as visiting the sick, if they bring one into my hospital room, I'm leaving. I certainly don't want to deal with being mauled if I'm already suffering.

"Pit bulls wrongly blamed." The Dallas Morning News; February 18, 2012; p. 22A.

http://www.dogsbite.org/dangerous-dogs-pit-bull-myths.php