74novaman wrote:Color me skeptical that a republican insider would know what goes on between Obama and Harry Reid.
I do think the EOs were tamer than Obama wanted. The potential for abuse is there, but I was shocked at how....toothless the EOs announced yesterday were.
The battles not over, but the winds seem favorable. I'm cautiously optimistic we can stop any gun control.
I did read an article somewhere where Reid said that he wouldn't make any of his Democrats sacrifice themselves on a vote that the was sure would fail in the House. While I'm hopeful that the backlash was successful and portends a reduction in the overall Democratic reach, I'm certainly not holding my breath. The NY Legislature vote is a stark reminder of the agenda and the milestones that they have set up in their progress. I suspect that the reaction to that vote was one of the factors in the watered down Obama approach.
I think that the global push to remove guns from the American public is so strong that we are going to see another attempt to accomplish it every time anything bad happens from here on out. We've always been asked to "own" the acts of the worst of society. That will only get worse.