Simple really. Owners of dogs should be held criminally liable for any attacks they make on others. Period. If you own a pitbull and it freaks out and kills my toddler, then you should have legal liability. Where that line is drawn and what the penalties are, is up for reasonable debate.
But this notion that dog owners just throw their hands up in the air and say "Nuttin I can do about it, sorry brah!" is nonsense. If a pitbull owner ever had his dog kill my son, I'm putting a bullet in the dog's skull and a bullet in the owner's leg.
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