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A friend who worked in ER told me this, a person walking a friend's pit bull while the friend was away, very familiar with the dog, and the dog lunged at a passing dog, they gripped the leash so it didn't get away, and it turned on them instead and ripped their arm right off. Someone called 911 and the cops had to shoot and kill the dog to stop the attack. The arm could not be saved at all. Imagine talking to your friend when they returned when you suddenly have no arm and the dog is gone? What's that conversation like?
No pit bull apologist will ever convince me they're safe dogs. I have a few other stories, including my own niece needing four facial plastic surgeries due to a family pet attacking her. Those dogs should be banned.
Pit bulls, XL Bullys, Akitas... these dog breeds are not fully domesticated.
Always unnerving when you are out walking your dog and you pass the owner of some hellhound saying, "Don't worry, Toby is friendly!" While the dog is salivating and pulling at the leash to come and maim you lol.
Happened to me a few weeks ago actually. And the thing with pit bulls is that they don't really have body language that warns you they're about to attack or feel threatened, they stay very still and then fly at you, and that is a powerful bite. The nursing and emergency medicine subreddits have horror stories of children who died or lost their faces from pits.