If you say things like "It’s probably just a couple of opioid dealers or parolees who are afraid they might lose their bad boy image maker," I think you should have the balls to put that in your subject. Your calm, intelligent, thoughtful approach aside, let's get to the meat of it.

Different states say different things...so you can provide your links, and I can provide mine, and still there is no broad, agreed-upon standard, except in your mind. Maryland courts removed all references to "mixed" and "cross-bred" pit bulls in a court of appeals decision, for example.

Pit bull is a type. Like hound. No matter how much you bleat otherwise.

And while you want to make this a crisis, it simply isn't. It's terrible when it happens. But you don't have the answer, as much as you want to control the narrative. You're approaching a complex issue with a bumper sticker solution, which is lazy thinking.