re: #265 Dark_Falcon

Bloomberg is having an episode of political tunnel-vision. President Obama is in the middle of difficult budget negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner, and those negotiations hold top priority. If Obama were to come out strong for new gun control laws right now, those negotiations would collapse, as the uproar within the GOP would force Speaker Boehner to withdraw from the negotiations. So whatever Mayor Bloomberg might want, the realities on current politics require the president to focus on matters other than gun control.

Yes, fiscal cliff aside I don’t think it’s even realistic given the Republican majority in the House.