Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
I'm not so sure Obama has "chosen" to get into the gun battle - I think he's a more pragmatic politician than some folks give him credit, and I've got a feeling he's taken to heart Bill Clinton's views on the NRA / gun rights, and how that could affect your political career.
I think I concur. Back on January 18th, right after the announcement that the President was naming Biden to head up the effort to stamp out gun rights in the names of the dead children (or however he put it), I posted this:
Me said:[A]ll indications -- really right from the initial burst of outcry -- seem to have been leading to an inevitable petering out of momentum. The best thing he could do with something so contentious and hard to win would be to delay and "think on it" for a while, release a few non-contentious orders that won't do anything at all and don't really get anyone up in arms, give it to his political scapegoat (Biden) to separate himself from the inevitable failure to go anywhere, blame Congress, and simply let the momentum for any action at all to die away as it always does.
If that's the plan (and it is pretty smart politics, after all) then he's RIGHT on track.
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