I put in my own book that I think people should have to get a license for a pit bull, and take a basic competency test to own one.

You have to have a license to drive a car (because of potentially deadly accidents), you have to have a permit to carry a gun, and IMO an owner should have to prove some pretty good canine competence before he owns a bulldog.

The way it is now, any idiot with no understanding of the breed (and no knowledge of how to confine one) can get a bulldog and have it in the neighborhood. Banning is (was and always will be) wrong, but I think having to get a license to own a pit dog should be mandatory.

And, as you said, only the lazy (or non-serious) would balk at that.

Jack