I don’t know. Again, there are signals being made and sent here. A bill could pass the House knowing it will never pass the Senate.

I just don’t think it’s wise to take anything at absolute face value. Deals will be made on the golf course and in back rooms over a bourbon like they always are. All of what we see from either side is mostly posturing and signals to public entities, or to pacify/whip up the public.

The gun manufacturing industry needs to get together with their bean counters and decide whether or not they’re willing to give up assault rifle sales or risk losing tens or hundreds of millions every time there’s a mass event in liability settlements. That’ll rack up to over a billion a year at the current rate of mass events. Don’t forget, regardless of whether a law is passed or not, suits can still be filed by anyone who has the means and the will to do so. People are sick and tired of all the death. The gun industry and anyone associated with them could find themselves on the defendent side of one lawsuit after another. Frankly, the public itself could run them out of business and choke up the courts should they choose to take a page out of Trump’s book. He was a terrible president but he gave us an education on certain things. Like using the legal system to wear down and harass an enemy.

I understand the concern and I share it to a large degree. This decision could be a pandora’s box.

Just don’t forget why we’re here. It’s not because Democrats are unreasonable or snowflakes or don’t care about civil liberties. It’s because of 30+ years of far right and gun industry legislative obstruction while the streets and the school yards bled. It’s the refusal to come to the table and deal with the problem. It’s the gaslighting.

For. Thirty. Plus. Years.

And now you’ve got Republican politicians posing T&A shots with assault rifles and daisy dukes. That’s more than just poor judgement and bad taste. It’s beyond disrespectful. If I was a Coloradoan, the moment Boebert got on stage or in front of a camera to offer thoughts and prayers is the minute she would get a rotten tomato to the face. Booed. Publicly shamed. Sued. Called to resign.

A day of reckoning was going to come. You can’t disrespect the lives of the populace and make money off their death and misery and not expect pushback. The guillotines come out eventually. Time doesn’t change that; we’ve been here before, we’ll be here again.

So, what happens next is mostly in the hands of the gun industry and the far right Personally, I hope they see sense and come to the table, though their behavior, rhetoric, propaganda, and photo ops don’t give me much hope.

It’s too bad. They’re so far in their own echo chamber they can’t see how much public sentiment has swayed on this issue.