Probably..... Just like the 1994 Brady Bill/Law re firearms.
This is why it would be MUCH MUCH better to declare a state of emergency and explicitly suspend Constitutional rights for a limited time.
We have been operating under a permanent state of emergency since WWII. The government has literally given itself the power to ignore the Constitution whenever it pleases on an ongoing, periodically renewed basis. As a result, the Patriot Act is just the most recent horror is a series of horrors that has eroded Consitutional protections.
Conservative like me are not "hysterical" about the Patriot Act. We are well aware it is only an "incremental change." But it is an incremental change in the wrong direction on top of a pile of previous assaults on the Constitution.
"So what?" the jackboot lickers will no doubt ask. Well, this is what: You can count me and my children OUT of any effort to fight for a nation that has abandoned its Consitution. Call me when it is restored. Until then, Ashcroft, Ridge and the rest can go to hell. It is not the "act" of a "Patriot" to support the further destruction of our Constitution.
Is mine an isolated case of disillusionment? Ask a recruiter. The armed foreces are in DEEP recruiting trouble.