Here is how I see this playing out:
1. Pres. BHO will issue an Executive Order telling BATFE to regulate gun shows, and requiring all sales at gun shows go through a NICS check. This will pass legal, because it falls under the rules agencies can put in place much like when OSHA tried to stop reloading shipments under safety rules. The only way that went away was through the strength and influence of Pres. GWB;
2. H.R. 4269, The Assault Weapons Ban of 2015,
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/textwill continue its way through the system;
3. Mrs. Clinton will continue and expand her attack on the NRA;
4. As WE fight the Executive Order, the current administration and Mrs. Clinton will play off of the so called 90% who want universal background checks, and they will claim that the NRA and gun nuts are out of control. They will take the 50% who think universal checks are good, and through spin doctoring and emotions grow it to 75%,
5. The Brady Campaign will join in with overblown emotional appeals for common sense;
6. Bloomberg will ramp up attack with hundreds of millions of dollars, smoke and mirrors, and a full on media blitz.
Unless we prepare, and prepare last week, with facts that the issue is about the actor and not the tool, we will be quickly dismissed as uncaring, cold hearted, redneck, neanderthals. We need to carry the facts that the gun is less of a threat than personal tools, hands and feet (see FBI Fact Sheet showing hands and feet more often used than long guns), and the failing of the legal system in cases like Dontray Mills.
We need to remember how we look when we make "funny" comments and posts, and push the facts that gun owners and users are safe, reasonable, and law abiding. Remember boys and girls,
Facebook is not your man cave, and gun phobes and gun haters read your jokes.This has the ability to become the perfect storm that will distract and divide the nation over the next 10 months.