Bartholomew Roberts
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Just Kerry? Well assuming we still managed to elect 6 new pro-gun Senators while at the same time electing one of the most anti-gun Presidential candidates to ever run, we wouldn't be in too bad of shape since Kerry would be gridlocked with Congress to some degree.
AWB would probably get renewed because they just didn't need to flip that many votes and a President has a lot of power to bargain with. Although Kerry may have let the AWB expire and then use the friendly press and political capital to bargain for an "international agreement" to abide by the UN Small Arms program being discussed this April 2006.
If (more realistically) pro-gun voters stayed home and Kerry won as well as several anti-gun Senators, then we would be looking at a lot bleaker picture.
Having said all that, the important difference between 2004 and 2008 is that there was a clear cut difference on guns. If the Republican candidate in 2008 is a Bloomberg, McCain, Giuliani, etc. then there is no clear cut difference (unless the Dems choose a pro-gun candidate). Right now the Republicans will be lucky if they get a single vote from me in 2006, if they run their proposed lineup in 2008, I don't care how bad the other candidate is, I am either staying home or voting third party.
AWB would probably get renewed because they just didn't need to flip that many votes and a President has a lot of power to bargain with. Although Kerry may have let the AWB expire and then use the friendly press and political capital to bargain for an "international agreement" to abide by the UN Small Arms program being discussed this April 2006.
If (more realistically) pro-gun voters stayed home and Kerry won as well as several anti-gun Senators, then we would be looking at a lot bleaker picture.
Having said all that, the important difference between 2004 and 2008 is that there was a clear cut difference on guns. If the Republican candidate in 2008 is a Bloomberg, McCain, Giuliani, etc. then there is no clear cut difference (unless the Dems choose a pro-gun candidate). Right now the Republicans will be lucky if they get a single vote from me in 2006, if they run their proposed lineup in 2008, I don't care how bad the other candidate is, I am either staying home or voting third party.