**** this may represent Obama’s last, best shot to achieve the types of firearms laws long rebuffed by the powerful gun lobby in Washington.****
No it doesn’t. If the law is not passed the following things will happen.
A tougher gun control law will be prepared and set aside.
A mental patient will be released from an insane asylum.
He will legally get a gun on the “to be banned” list by passing the NICS and local state checks.
He will get extended magazines on the “to be banned” list.
He will get ammo.
He will go on a killing spree.
He will then kill himself.
The set aside bill to ban guns will be brought out and passed in the heat of passion, with a backup of giving billions to the states as a bait to pass the bill.
It has happened in the past. This is how Pat Purdy got his guns to shoot up the Stockton school yard, then the California AW ban, which was already prepared, was passed in the heat of passion.
Even at their most innocent, the bills will be prepared and tuned, propaganda will be prepared, and they will wait expectantly for one crazy person, somewhere, to snap.
If they actually are involved in a massacre, then we're way past that awkward stage.