The grabbers will always turn these kinds of school shootings into a media circus focused on banning guns and punishing gun owners instead of where it should be focused, on workable measures to stop these nutjobs from gaining access to schools. I don't have any specific suggestions for how that can be done, but there are professional security experts available who do that sort of thing for corporate clients and could do the same for schools. If school boards can afford all the unnecessary foofoorall that my generation got along just fine without they can afford to hire expert security consultants.
Bush was willing to go along with the AWB, and has seemed very reluctant to come out in public support of pro-gun legislation even though he has signed the few pro-gun bill that have come to his desk. I guess the bottom line for me on Bush and gun owner rights is that I just don't fully trust his real attitude toward 2nd Amendment rights any more than I did his dad's.
I recall his statement that he would sign a renewal of the original act. There was virtuallly no chance that a renewal of the original act, unmolested, would ever get to his desk. It was fresh in the minds of the Congress that gun control was a lynchpin issue that put many of them in their seats, and the Dems would not have been able to resist adding a bunch of crap on.
Now, though, I will wait and see.
It would be a rare and welcome change if the President called for doing away with the gun-free victim zones.