1. The leftists and mainstream media have been unusually quiet for the last two major public shootings (VA Tech and the church shooting last week). Their normal modus operandi is to use incidents like these to trumpet ‘reasonable gun control’. Oddly, there have been no dem/handgun control press conferences demanding new laws. That should make one pause and wonder why the quiet response - but respond they will. They realize from the past couple elections that ‘gun control’ is NOT a winning issue. They will try to take advantage of the situation legislatively or through government fiat (read: regulations).
2. Don’t support a regulation or law just because you have faith (diminishing though it may be) that the current administration and executive branch appointees will safeguard your rights. Imagine the worst case that Hillary! or another marxist will someday wield those powers and ask yourself you are willing to sacrifice your God given rights to a communist authority.
3. At some point, you may be considered by the powers-that-be as crazy if you aren’t a card carrying member of Code Pink, Moveon.org, NAMBLA, or some like organization. “If you don’t support our agenda, you must be insane!” and therefore declared too unstable to possess weapons.
Food for thought.
Kit.
The way things are looking now the chances of the next President being as arms rights friendly as the current one, such as he is, are slim and fading. All of the 'Rat cannidates are gun grabber, and about half the Pubbie ones have that in their record as well.
Even the Great White Hope, Fred Thompson, is squishy at best, probably about like the Presidents Bush, maybe a bit more like the son than the father (Governor Bush signed Texas' CHL law, just as he promised he would, but he also promised that as President, he would sign an extension of the Ugly Gun Ban). Mitt and Rudy are both old gun grabbers. Hunter is solid on the Second, as is Huckabee. If Gingrich steps in (unlikely, IMHO, but you never know until the fat lady sings), he's also solid, having rammed a repeal of the UGB through the House, only to have the RINO Senate sit on it.