Scott H. * Hale 
Twenty years ago the founder of the "People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals" organization. Ingrid Newkirk. wrote an opinion piece that
was published about pit-bulls and it created quite a stir since she was
in favor of bans. The official position of the PETA organization is in
support of bans on the animals to this day.
https://www.dailypress.com /news/dp-xpm-20000127-2000-01-27-0001270085-story.html

It was about ten years prior to that when two City of Denver
Councilwomen, Mary DeGroot and Ramona Martinez, spent some of
their valuable time and effort to pass the "breed-specific legislation” to
ban pit-bulls in Denver. ( City Councilwoman Ramona Martinez was.
inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2010 and Mary
DeGroot almost became mayor of Denver in 1995 but lost to Mayor
Webb in a run-off election. ) Their work to get the law enacted was in
response to the two incidents that I referenced in a previous reply to
this posting.

Inoticed that there is a whole list of other "experts” and organizations,
including the Colorado Humane Society, that support eliminating the
ban. From what I can tell there's an idea that abusers of the animals
will be flushed out and brought to justice. It has been postulated that
it's the abused animals that are the cause of fatal and near fatal
attacks on people but I think it's possible that something could
happen that is out of the owner's control that could be a stressor and
put a dog in an agitated state enough to where it would revert to the
instinctive behavior that is characteristic of the type or breed of canine.
It shouldn't be at the expense of the public's safety in a densely
populated area to informally experiment with dogs that were
specifically bred to attack and fight (read Ingrid's article). The dogs
exhibit behavior akin to wild animals. There are other things that
residents aren't allowed to do within the city limits for the sake of
public safety. In reality it doesn't matter to a vietim of a dog attack if
the animal was abused or not. There is an apparent amount of pride
(ak.a. "virtue signaling’) among the aficionados of the dogs which is
evident even here that reveals bias in itself. I would contend here that
the included picture of the dog with sunglasses technically is a sign of
abuse of animals since a dog would typically immediately knock the
glasses off of its head and would have to be trained to wear them, no
matter how easy it would be, but the dog doesn't need them so it's
merely for human entertainment.