There’s just no end to the good that the government can to to for us if we would just surrender those silly liberties and empower them without limit!!

The more problematic part of the law was applying the liability to landlords. This was the first time this has ever happened and immediately legal advice was being doled out to property managers and landlords that pit bulls or mixes (again, completely undefined) should be banned or the owners kicked out of properties. One group even advised that rottweilers should also be banned since they were the second most dangerous dog (note- from quite faulty evidence). This part is the more immediate problem and must be addressed as quickly as possible.

In cases where the bite is truly the fault of the bitten person (they climbed in the dog’s pen, for example), Maryland accepts assumption of the risk as a defense in strict liability cases.

I never thought the one-bite rule made sense. It’s a dog. You know it may bite, just like you know it will most likely bark and sniff other dogs’ asses. You don’t need to have had it happen once to know these things. The law assumes people know ice is slippery, water is wet, fire is hot, etc. I don’t see a huge difference in assuming that you’re on notice your dog might bite somebody.