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Certain dog breeds are definitely more docile or aggressive, but Pitbulls aren't inherently more aggressive than other dogs in the same category like a Rottweiler, Doberman, Shepherd, etc. The market is just flooded with them so you hear way more bad stories about them. If Rottweilers where as prevalent as Pitbulls where and trained just as poorly you'd hear the same narrative as with Pitbulls.

The problem is that with Pitbulls they have a stigma around them that makes absolute morons get them as pets. Morons who don't know how to train them and get them specifically because they look tough. In some cases growing up I knew people whose families had Pitbulls and they would specifically train them to be aggressive because they thought that was what a Pitbull was supposed to be. That's no fault of the breed, you could train a Golden Retriever poorly enough and they would bite the shit out of random people.

Now the one issue with Pitbulls I will note is that compared to most dogs they are actually built pretty damn well for fighting. So when you have an aggressive one they can do some serious damage compared to even some larger dog breeds. Combine that with the poor ownership and it's a recipe for disaster. I would never hate the breed, but If I see a Pitbull wondering around I'm not going to be nave enough to go near it. But I would feel the same way for many other breeds as well.