Yes you can type "pitbull kills" into google search and it will pull up horrible stories. But you can also type in "Mother kills Child" into google search and alot of extremely upsetting stories will come up. Stories about both topics are not the typical mothers or pitbulls. They are unique cases of disturbed animals and disturbed humans. But the truth of the matter is most mothers and most pitbulls do not just attach children. There are extinuating circumstances that lead up to the event. In humans cases can range from medical/mental illness, tramatic childhoods,etc!! In pitbulls reasons are similar previous abuse, starvation, dog fighting, etc. Neither humans or pitbulls are born mean. They are made to be that way. What will it take to make ignorant uneducated people understand this. Yes it is very sad to hear of a person/child being attacked by an animal and my heart goes out to those families. BUT it is not the animals fault. It is the owners fault. Also law enforment officers and city officals for not inforcing basic non breed specific animal control laws. I know that in our town for instance there has been complaints about vicious animals (numerous breeds). However law enforcment in no way inforces animal control laws. Nothing is done about animals running loose in town. Accounts of vicious dogs are over looked with warnings. If these basic laws were inforced. Severe punishment for offenders that are found to have committed animal cruelty. And responsible dog ownership programs available in your area. I would gaurentee that the number of these horrible accidents would go down drastically. I am sure this is the case in MANY areas. Things would get better if officials would get to the root of the problem and stop picking on the American Pitbull Terrier. The same way they have picked on numerous other cause breeds for the moment. The root of all these matters are IRRESPONSIBLE INHUMAN OWNERS. Punish these people do not punish an innocent dog that is only doing what it was taught or reacting to cruel treatment. Alot of people support their "Vicious pitbull" theroies using statistics from the CDC about breed specific bites and fatalities. However a few years ago the CDC stopped reporting by breed specific statistics because they realized how innacurate they are..... The American Temperment Testing Society,( http://www.atts.org ) which is a study of different breeds to determine temperment and stability, shows that the American Pitbull Terrier is not a "time bomb" as some people refer to them. In fact they passed with an 84% which was better than alot of common "family pets". They scored higher than the Beagle, Bearded and Border Collie, Corgi, CHIHUAHUA, CHOW CHOW, COCKER SPANIEL, ALL TYPES OF SCHNAUZER, MINIATURE POODLE, COONHOUND, and the list goes on and on....Another vary informative place of information on dog attacks is http://www.fataldogattacks.com and http://www.nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com Karen Delise has dedicated MANY years to the study of dog attacks. I urge you all to check out these sites and to read her book Fatal Dog Attacks.... Many studies show that Pitbulls are not vicious, that it is in fact the human owners that are the vicious ones. Also the following video might be of interest to some of you. http://gprime.net/flash.php/thepitbullproblem