"Political Capital"

[30 cal slut]

So, let's assume a few things happen over the next 12 months.

1) Obamacare passes and is signed into law.

2) GDP picks up, even if unemployment stays where it is (U-6 at, say, 18%).

Does this give the dems enough political capital to try to pull off some federal gun control legislation (AWB II)?

Or does the health care legislation backfire against the dems?

Does a jobless recovery hurt the dems?

There are a lot of crosscurrents here. Have things changed enough in the aftermath of Heller? Is gun control now the third rail of national politics?

I think we live in interesting times.

In the Chinese sense of the word. ;)

[cschwanz]

Its gonna be near impossible to figure out whats going to happen any time ahead of when it does. I, for one, am expecting a run at some type of AWB after the healthcare issue is finished, one way or another. who knows what else they have planned over the next couple years and God forbid another 4 years after that....

[Iraqgunz]

To the OP. You should have read this first since this is going to spiral into a gun control issue.

https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?p=294704#post294704