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My family had a Rottweiler from before I was born until I was about 9. He weighed more than a lot of people, but he was about the friendliest dog you could imagine. He was great around kids, and when he was 10 or 12 we even got a cat with whom he was also very friendly. As far as I know he never came close to being dangerously agressive with anyone. The way these dogs are raised is clearly a huge factor. I have no personal experience with pit bulls, but I know it would have been totally ridiculous to take our rottie away from us because he happened to be the same breed as some other dogs that are even trained to be agressive if not simply undisciplined. I don't want to mention a certain political party from the early-to-mid-20th century, but ah, I think you get the idea.
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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