Katrina was during Bush's reign of terror. So your answer to stopping such a thing from reoccurring is to give control back to the party that says they are for your second amendment rights but clearly are not as evidenced through actual action? Obama, it seems has been pretty clear that he really doesn't want any major gun control legislation. He has asked the houses for things he KNOWS he can't get...threw it over to Biden to mull around with what may or may not work and sandbag it a bit. The only major change he really seems hell bent over is closing the gun show loophole / universal background checks and while inconvenient to most of us, it's not Armageddon if it happens. At least not to those of us who can pass a background check. For those of you who can't, I can see why you are so "up in arms" but sorry...I don't have your back on this. Nobody is going door to door. Nobody is trying to ban all guns. Even the talk of assault weapons bans is just talk to ease the mind of the Sandyhook moms...but wasn't expected to go anywhere even when brought up. I would imagine that some of it is for Obama's entertainment. He knows how much he's hated on the right so speaking out on what the right holds a good bit more near and dear than most of the left...gotta admit it's kinda funny to watch a bunch of pissed off right wingers running scared and making fools of themselves digging bomb shelters in their back yards to bury their old SKSs in. He's actually going about all this pretty effectively. He won't get the legislation and he knows it and probably doesn't even really want it. But by bringing it up, it brings all the extremists out into the streets hooping and hollering and I'm sure a good many of them are finding themselves on watch lists or in prison or mental hospitals where they belong.
First off what would "universal" background checks do? They would make a registry of all law-abiding gun owners. It would do nothing to help keep guns out of criminals hands. So I don't think that people that couldn't pass a background check really care about what law is passed anyway. They are criminals, they aren't gonna follow the law. I can't for the life of me see how anyone could see what Obama is doing and like it. If you think that he dosen't want to take most guns from the people then you are drowning in Koolaid. Just because he does not want to "Take all guns away", doesn't mean he won't take most of them. An infringement on any of my rights is unacceptable to me. If you want to call me an extremist for fighting to keep my rights, then I am the most extreme SOB alive.