[GirlyGirl2003]

There will be no "sunsets". The GOP is increaseingly anti-gun as it moves left of center on many issues. Our guns will be taken from us in a few presidential terms, unless we can steer the GOP back to its conservative roots.

[Long Cut]

I used to think that, but there may be some cause for optimism. Check out www.awbansunset.com for the prevailing news. It is very encouraging.

Except for a few holdouts (Fienswine, Scummer, and the Swimmer among the worst), the Dems are seemingly dropping this one.

IMHO, the ONLY way the sunset will be thwarted is if some crazed nut with an Evil Black Rifle shoots up a bunch of people just prior to the suset date.

[archy]

There will be no "sunsets". The GOP is increaseingly anti-gun as it moves left of center on many issues.

Then perhaps it will be the GOP itself that *sunsets* instead, just as the party of the Whigs was replaced by the Republicans. And just as Theodore Roosevelt abandoned the Republican party to become a *BullMoose Progressive* when the Republicans of 1912 made the mistake of underestemating Roosevelt's determination. I hope today's Republicans do not underestimate ours.

The Bull Moose party was the popular name for the U.S. PROGRESSIVE PARTY that Theodore ROOSEVELT organized for his 1912 presidential campaign. After being denied the REPUBLICAN nomination that year, Roosevelt ran on his own third-party ticket.

The Bull Moose platform called for the direct election of senators; women's suffrage; monopoly-control laws; minimum-wage and child-labor legislation; tariff reform; and the initiative, recall, and referendum at the federal level. In the election, Roosevelt polled 4,118,571 popular and 88 ELECTORAL votes. He outpolled the Republican ticket but, by splitting the Republican vote, assured the election of Woodrow WILSON, the DEMOCRATIC candidate. The Bull Moose party disappeared in 1916, when Roosevelt rejoined the Republicans.