Malcolm Gladwell has a blog

If you look, in fact, at emergency room statistics, you’ll see that more people are admitted every year for non-dog bites than dog-bites–which is to say that when you see a Pit Bull, you should worry as much about being bitten by the person holding the leash than the dog on the other end.

Does that follow?  Here is the blog, and thanks to Lynne Kiesling for the pointer.