Good, I'm not trying to make anyone mad I'm just trying to explain logically why I have the opinion I do. But it's nothing to be sad about either! I'm really open minded and have changed a lot of my thinking in recent years, and some of my feelings stem from having children. If I see any large or intimidating looking dog running my way, I'm gonna scoop up my babies, no two ways about it. Whether it be a Pitbull or any other big dog, and I'm not gonna apologize for making the dog or the owner feel bad, I'm just going to make sure my kids are okay first- before I know anything about the dog. And now having made the decision to bring 2 pups into our home that are going to grow to be very large dogs one day, I understand the same reaction we will get from other people, but I understand it.
People don't generally come up wanting to pet our dogs now when we walk them, they stay in their driveway just saying hi from a distance, as when we had our american eskimo people went out of their way to come down and pet her. I don't even have dogs that people recognize and know what they are. It just is what it is, and honestly doesn't bother me.