A breed ban won't work. The idiot owners who get pitbulls because they are tough dogs and either mistreat them or train them to be vicious will just get something else. And a similar size dog who gets raised by that owner will be just as capable of inflicting serious damage as a pitbull (or whatever breed you're planning to ban).
The only way to make it even remotely "work" would be to ban all dogs over 20 pounds or something like that. And even saying that, the worst bite I ever got came from a 10-15 pound dog.
What I would like to see is severe punishment for people like the owner in the newspaper article. No one hates bad dog owners more than good dog owners, because they give us all a bad reputation.
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