My name is Michaela and I am a mother of a family pit bull survivor.When I first started to become an advocate for victims and survivors of fighting breed dog attacks, I found out very quickly that there is a lot of owners out there that are as viscous as their dogs attack style. The very first comment someone made to me because they couldn't get me to agree with what they were saying was,"I wish your son had died." Since then I have been threatened, bashed, called a racist, hater, compared to Nazis, and told I should be shot. These same type of people have taken my facebook pictues and put them on troll pages just to take shots at me. Just the other day I asked someone who was bashing me,"Where is your compassion for the victims?" They responded by saying,"I know all about you people and your victim mentality." They continued by saying,"You people blame everything bad in your lives on pit bulls." I remember thinking,"My God, these are the kind of people who own these dogs." Some of these people only have compassion for these animals. They put these dogs on a pedestal like Gods and the rest of the world be damned. How can we count on owners to take the precautions they need to if they won't even admit that these serious and fatal injuries are the result of irresponsible ownership and the attack style of these type of dogs. They can't understand that all dog breeds have irresponsible owners. So if it was purely an bad ownership problem then every breed of dogs would be killing 26 people in a year like fighting breeds are. Maybe people wouldn't fight so hard to ban these dogs if they felt owners could have even a little compassion for victims and survivors and come up with a compromise that will lower the risk of attacks. Regardless of what happens, I know that what these people say or do will not detour me from warning people about the dangers of fighting breed dogs. If another child or adult is attacked, I know I couldn't have it on my conscience if I didnt do everything I could to prevent it. Please keep in mind that a lot of people that speak up about the dangers of fighting breeds were also once owners and advocates themselves. Some of us were just misinformed. We all would hope that you can learn from our experiences and mistakes.