According to TPM, America's favorite never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste administration is preparing to ram through a number of restrictions to our Second Amendment civil rights as early as Jan 15. The idea behind this strategy is to strike while people's heightened emotions are still scrambling common sense:

The White House and gun control supporters are gearing up for a whirlwind month, with plans to pass reform legislation before outrage over the Sandy Hook massacre has a chance to fade. …

House Democrats are moving ahead with their own plans as well. On Friday, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), chair of the newly created Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, announced the appointment of 12 vice chairs, including Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), the body’s leading voice on gun control. According to a Democratic aide, the group plans to release its recommendations in early February and is already organizing public hearings on the issue.

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What's even more appalling is the republicans will sit on their butts and let it happen. The democrats see this as a foot in the door to taking out guns.
I'm writing my Senators and Congressmen to take action against this bill.

Normally the house meets for the speach and then two days of work and go on winter break for 4 weeks. I would say they will do the same. Bonehead knows he could lose his ohio seat over this crap.

0bama has become clearly empowered by the weak, chaotic GOP response to the manufactured "fiscal cliff crisis". He will become more bold as he meets less and less resistance.