Banning pitbulls is silly, but potential owners must be well educated about them like any potentially dangerous animal. It's similar to owning a python, foolish behavior often ends in disaster, pets get killed, people die. The parts about the pitbulls "saving" people from venomous snakes is complete nonsense. A snake views both the pitbull and us as large and frightening potential predators, and wants nothing but to escape. Even the highly "aggressive" African cobras will flee at the slightest chance, but pitbulls are predatory and territorial and will attack pretty much anything moving in their space.