Excellent info. Thank you.
Thanks for sticking up for the breed. Here is some more information if you are interested. A lot of the stuff people say is just sensational hype. The wikipedia article has some things I don't totally agree with, but they are pretty fair and point out that most experts don't approve of banning breeds. I don't recall exactly what breed you said you had, but all big dog breeds are the target of these BSL movements. They will start with pits and rotts and move on to GSD an others. That was the trend in Europe and in certain US areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bulls
http://www.animalfarmfoundation.org/topic.php?id=4&topic=73
http://dogs.about.com/cs/breedprofiles/a/apbt_bsl.htm
Breed Descriptions
http://www.akc.org/breeds/american_staffordshire_terrier/index.cfm
http://www.ukcdogs.com/RegBreedGroups.htm
http://www.bulldogbreeds.com/americanpitbullterrier.html