saying pits are dangerous is in the line of thinking " hey that man with a knife just stabbed somebody so all people with knives are dangerous killers "
I certainly agree with you to a point, and I've been around several nice pit bulls (haven't met an unfriendly one yet) and I'm a dog person who considers them a dog like any other, for the most part.
Having said that, I think many would agree that the more likely reasoning/train of thought here is "hey that man with a knife just stabbed somebody, so all (non-kitchen) knives are dangerous." To whit, it's more likely the regulations would be placed on the tools rather than the person (for although we know the people are the core of the problem, society only seems to feel comfortable condemning people as "bad" as a last resort.)
My point is, given that more likely line of reasoning, one could argue that the knife cannot harm anyone of its own will, but to play devil's advocate here, a pit bull can do so.
The stories above about dogs roaming unleashed in public, I wouldn't so much have a problem with, except that they have a tendency to want to explore, check out others' yards, eat some bait (as we see above) and do other potentially annoying things that those who are not their owners may not find so cute. My parents live on a farm with the nearest neighbors quite far, so their dogs can roam free without risk of getting in anyone else's business. In a city area where that is less likely, more efforts should be taken to maintain their control and minimize their annoyance to others. This last isn't directed at bulls in particular or persons here, certainly, just any dog or any person who has a tendency not to care if that dog is properly maintained in a city area. I'm glad dogs in the country can roam free (and still know instinctively the borders of their home, to which they will always return), and I think if one really wants to let their dogs run around like that, they have a responsibility to move out where that is more feasible. Just my two cents, as a person whose second favorite animal is probably dogs, next to wolves.
P.S. for what it's worth, the two dogs of yours in the photo look great and if they wandered my way I'd likely just pet them a lot, rather than be annoyed. Of course they wouldn't since you've put up fencing and taken other measures, my general point of the last paragraph was just to address those other situations some city-folk above wrote about, where unleashed dogs got all up in someone else's business. No reason for that, in a city.
