[KoRn]

It would be political suicide to the dems newly found White House and expanded congressional majorities to push gun controls of any kind.

I’m afraid those gun grabbers are going to be very disappointed 4 years from now. Gun control is a DEAD END issue. It can ONLY lose votes for those that try it.

I believe the liberals have learned their lesson on gun control, unless they are just totally stupid politically.

[JSteff]

“Gun control is a DEAD END issue. It can ONLY lose votes for those that try it.”

Yeah, but also a year ago I would have thought electing a socialistic community organizer with an uncertain citizenship at birth to the the President of the United States was unlikely too.

[Drew68]

It would be political suicide to the dems newly found White House and expanded congressional majorities to push gun controls of any kind.

It would be. Even over at DU the consensus seems to be to leave guns alone. It's just not worth the political capital to try and force symbolic gun-control legislation.

[snowrip]

I’m afraid those gun grabbers are going to be very disappointed 4 years from now. Gun control is a DEAD END issue. It can ONLY lose votes for those that try it.

Not if the majority of the sheeple are lulled into pacifism by things like, say, massive income redistribution. When the liberals teach the "independents" that they, too, can vote themselves mountains of government-supplied graft (as long as they play along on the other issues), gun control will be a moot point. Add in the illegal voting, amnesty, and you have the complete disenfranchisement of the American voter.

[rednek]

"I’m afraid those gun grabbers are going to be very disappointed 4 years from now"

It won't take that long...red

[snoringbear]

“I believe the liberals have learned their lesson on gun control, unless they are just totally stupid politically.”

I hope you are right but I don't think you are. Obama owes his being elected to several different left-wing groups; of which on is the anti-gun bunch. So, he must give them their due quid pro quo. I think the first thing they may try is the resurrection of the Brady Bill. Guess we will see...

[Still Thinking]

It would be political suicide to the dems newly found White House and expanded congressional majorities to push gun controls of any kind. I’m afraid those gun grabbers are going to be very disappointed 4 years from now. Gun control is a DEAD END issue. It can ONLY lose votes for those that try it. I believe the liberals have learned their lesson on gun control, unless they are just totally stupid politically.

Even if you're correct, I can only foresee two scenarios and they're both bad.

Scenario 1: Dems ignore your advice and enact significant gun control legislation. This costs them Congress in '10 and the Presidency in '12. By then it's too late because on a good day, the Republicans fail to move the ball and just halt further erosion till they eventually get thrown out. On a bad day they do quite a bit of eroding themselves.

Scenario 2: Dems take your advice and stay away from gun control. This leaves them free to enact socialized health care and vastly increase taxes and regulation. Still, Republicans eventually retake Congress and the Presidency. Unfortunately it doesn't do any good because Republicans have no balls.

Remember that the only federal gun control legislation repealed recently (ever?) was a bill that came with a sunset built in, and EVEN THEN it was touch and go, even with a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican president!!

Why is it that Republicans have to win just to maintain the already screwed up status quo, and yet when these moronic yokels vote, they actually get at least some of the policy changes they wanted? We're still stuck with the shit passed by Satan's stepchild FDR over half a century ago. And the Dept of Education. AND the EPA (brought to you by a Republican president). AND No Child Left Behind (ditto).