Well, if Obama does not enact any major anti-gun laws, but gun prices
rise due to gun investing fools, I think that it is proper to blame
gun investing fools and not Obama, and not myself for voting for
him. Now, if Obama does enact anti gun legislation, that would
certainly make him to blame.

I think Obama is savvy enough to stay away from gun control, at least for
a few years. He
has to deal with his party that is dominated by some, shall we say, fairly
left of center
types. To win a majority the Dems had to run some fairly moderate people
to capitalize on
how freaking p*ss*d most conservative republicans were feeling against
their own people.

Those Dems that were elected are the dampening rods now that are keeping
the Democratic
party from going full left off of the rails.

Wes


As much as the right wingers would like you to believe it the Democrats are
not stupid, at least when it comes to keeping their seats. After Gore's loss
in 2000, which many blamed on his gun control position, a lot of Democrats
saw the light and realized that the only thing being anti gun did for them
was to cost them votes. You will notice that except for a few of the real
die hard liberals you don't hear anything negative about guns coming from
the rest of the Democrats. They learned that being anti gun is not a good
place to be when election day rolls around. You will also notice that many
of the Democrats that were elected last time are not like the old Democrats.
In fact, many of them have a lot of conservative views and especially the
ones from western states. The consequence is that you actually have quite a
few pro gun Democrats. Because of this you will not see any radical gun
control laws being passed even if Obama is for them. This will be because he
will have too much Democratic opposition. So the laws on guns won't change
much if at all. But the fear of a certain percentage of the population will
continue to feed the gun buying frenzy for at least a while longer.

Hawke