Well, you're not in the Deep South or West, where I will assume the NRA has its strongest base and where there have actually been attempts to make laws that everyone should own a gun.
IDK if pit bulls are also more popular in the South - I never heard of the breed until I got to Miami. Never even knew of dog fighting as a 'sport' outside of the historical accounts from times when cruelty to animals was acceptable. There are great defenders of the breed, but when the breed was specifically bred to fight in the pit, it is not so easily overlooked as being dangerous.