It stands to reason someone who gets a dog will love the dog, but if people simply stopped buying these breeds they would eventually go extinct an the world would be a safer place

Any terrier does that though. The thing is a jack Russell doing it is a joke that a suburban mom can yank to hell and back. A pitbull is 10x the weight and muscle mass of that tiny dog.

I don’t know if it rises to the level of needing to be regulated

It does. That's the whole point. There's nothing emotional about this opinion. You don't have to be scared to think dogs that regularly kill people should be banned. It's common sense.

Friend of mine had an adult American Stafford shire and a new red nose Pitbull puppy

Puppy wanted to play, Stafford tried to hide behind me.

Puppy started to bite him from behind to initiate play time, Stafford had enough and wanted to scare him away

Half my upper torso was inside Stafford's mouth.
He immediately recognised his mistake and I wasn't hurt in any way, but yeah, they do have quite some ability.

Still, both of them were one of the nicest dogs I've ever met.

They're really family dogs, but with that, they want to defend their family with all their might as well.
And being jealous over a human baby surely is a problem

Still, pretty much all dogs can hurt you and it's about their owners, who fuck up and those poor dogs need to take the shit for it, when their owner trained them wrong

Oh my, is this dog cute!

But the combination really sounds stressful

How did this even happen?

Your three data points don’t nullify the larger pattern. Lots of dogs can be shitty. Pit-bulls are uniquely strong and aggressive though. And German Shepherds can be gnarly bastards too. They’ll all fine if their owners know what they’re dealing with and can physically restrain the dog, but that’s so often not the case and owners don’t realize how little control they actually have until their dog is already gnawing on a child’s leg.

I hate huskies. They are lovely to look at, but are neurotic assholes

Pitbulls are largely due to the owner, and the actual dog is 99% of the time totally fine.

Wasps can fuck the fucking fuck right the fuck off though.

When everyone around you is the asshole, maybe it’s not everyone else.

An anecdote of one does not nullify scientific data.