Check out the [url=www.washtimes.com/national/20030509-92627140.htm]Washington Times[/url]...
"The House in the past has taken a dim view of the assault-weapons ban..." said Stuart Roy, spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican.
"...[b]It has zero chance[/b]," Mr. Roy said, adding that the Senate might try to fold the ban's reauthorization into a bill that the House supports, but that such a strategy is bound to fail.
"It's technically possible to do that, but just about on the verge of being impossible," Mr. Roy said.
Now instead of wasting our time arguing about hypothetical futures where we are all worse off (i.e. Bush signing it), we can use the energy to secure a better one for all of us by keeping the pressure on in the House.