But don’t think that the war is over. The president that thinks that small town people get bitter and “cling to guns” and made it his priority to make permanent gun control laws, has realized that he probably bit off more than the American people can chew in these first few months. Already America will be forced to pay higher energy taxes, pay higher energy costs due to a “cap-and-trade” interventionist policy, pay higher tobacco taxes, pay higher capital gains taxes, pay a higher “death tax” (the tax was supposed to drop to zero next year, instead Obama has kept it at 45%), and pay trillions more to “bailout” Wall Street and fund the Democrats entitlement programs. Add to that a foreign policy that some people characterize as soft on terror and soft on tyranny and we have an administration that has “changed” America’s strategy of projecting power and stimulating free enterprise to a strategy of “playing nice” and increasing government economic intervention. Obama has not succeeded in implementing this strategy completely but he has started veering us in that direction. Fortunately, since we are still a nation where our voices count somewhat, Obama and attorney general Eric Holder seem to have backed off from their previous gun control goals, primary amongst them the assault weapons ban. At a time when liberals have been relentlessly attacking conservatives and constitutionalists, their push to change the spirit of American freedom is finally showing signs of strain. It’s about time we got some good news.

The fate of the Second Amendment was looking bleak as a recent string of shootings by deranged individuals and reports that Mexico’s drug violence was being fueled by weapons smuggled from the US were used by liberal elements in the media to push for gun control. The only sign that the government was not going full-force against the second amendment was the Supreme Court ruling that reasserted the right of individuals to own guns rather than just organized militias. Apparently, even though the liberals are in control of Congress, they do not have the support to restrict the right to bear arms which means that two government branches are not willing to pursue this agenda. That leaves the Obama administration with little to no chance that any aggressive restrictions on the second amendment will be enacted for the next couple of years. This does not mean that the administration won’t try to place restrictions one way or another, but it is a victory for Americans who believe that this right is necessary for freedom to endure. And to those who do not believe that it is vital to democracy, here’s what Lara Croft thinks:

-AG