What will happen?
People vote their pocketbooks. The economy will be worse condition next spring than it is now and I expect Bush's numbers will be so low by late spring, he'll be looking to pull a Clinton and steal issues from the Democrats. He's going to realize that if he doesn't pull in some of those fence sitting/liberal leaning Democratic voters he won't be living in the White House for another four years. A good strategy for getting those voters in his camp is the AWB. One of those issues will be the AWB ban - and he'll push it in Congress and it'll pass and be signed into law. Most gun owners don't care about this issue, and let's be honest - most gun owners won't vote against Bush if he pushes and signs a law that has been on the books for ten years already. The Republican strategists know this.
I'm not counting on the AWB going away. When was the last time you remember the Federal govt. restoring some of your 2nd Amendment Rights?
People vote their pocketbooks. The economy will be worse condition next spring than it is now and I expect Bush's numbers will be so low by late spring, he'll be looking to pull a Clinton and steal issues from the Democrats. He's going to realize that if he doesn't pull in some of those fence sitting/liberal leaning Democratic voters he won't be living in the White House for another four years. A good strategy for getting those voters in his camp is the AWB. One of those issues will be the AWB ban - and he'll push it in Congress and it'll pass and be signed into law. Most gun owners don't care about this issue, and let's be honest - most gun owners won't vote against Bush if he pushes and signs a law that has been on the books for ten years already. The Republican strategists know this.
I'm not counting on the AWB going away. When was the last time you remember the Federal govt. restoring some of your 2nd Amendment Rights?