If it wasn't for those "scumbags" you wouldn't have an American Pit Bull Terrier, you would have something else. These days dog fighting is illegal. Then, it wasn't. So those dogmen did nothing wrong. I love my two dogs, and I would never purposely harm them, but I am under no dillusions about where they come from. By the way, Christopher Columbus was a slave owner, and helped prepare the so-called Middle Passage that was used for hundreds of years to transport slaves from Africa to the West. During slavery thousands were killed, men castrated and women raped, and their babies taken from them at birth and uncerimoniously killed. Slave owners used to breed slaves the way people breed dogs, looking for the strongest females and the strongest males, mating them, and then taking the babies who would also grow up to be big and strong and selling them at birth or as children to the highest bidder. Yet every year we celebrate Columbus day, for the man who discovered America (Native Americans not withstanding), and we feel pride in being an American even though American government of the day condoned slavery. Why don't you write a letter to the government and tell them that we should stop celebrating Christopher Columbus as a hero? He wasn't even American, he was a citizen of Spain! The past makes us who we are, and we can no more change it than deny it. All we can do is remember it and learn from it so as not to repeat those same mistakes while striving for the same results or better in the future. So get your head out of the sand