James, where are you getting your statistics from? I only question them because the most recent study (2016) I could locate states that more than 300,000 Americans visit the ER for dog bites every year from various breeds and an average of 25 die from their injuries. I would love to read the evidenced based study you found. The same 2016 study states that in 2008 a woman was attacked by a dog, her story was reported in 230 different articles. People could misconstrue this as 230 different bites.  A few days before this a mix breed dog killed a 16 month old, the story labeled the dog as a pit and it was reported in two separate articles. The Journal of Applied Animal Welfare conducted a study of 20 dogs, 16 of them were incorrectly identified 87% of the time. As a society we should remember that just because someone says it was a Pit, doesn't mean it was.