UPDATE: Events are moving so fast that two prior posts need special updating so Gene Berardelli, Russell Gallo and Jerry Kassar can be ready on their blogs and in their columns for the big doins on gun control in New York State that look like they are coming very fast indeed

The Sunday, January 6th post, “OH NO! IT HAPPENED AGAIN.......” (about Jerry Kassar’s failure to properly address the gun control issue in his “Common Sense” column); and the Saturday, January 5th post, “The Brooklyn GOP and the NRA........” ( about Gene Beradelli and Russell Gallo’s prospective friendly interview of NRA President David Keene) must be updated so as to alert the operators of the Brooklyn GOP’s and Conservative Party’s flak-ing hack operations to be ready to explain away the now much-expected GOP NYS Senate cave-in on gun control in New York State.  

It’s been reported by Ken Lovett of the Daily Politics blog and the Daily News that “In the back and forth ‘flash point’ between Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats over guns, a top aide to Gov. Cuomo weighed in to say, yes, the Assembly Dems are open to tougher criminal penalties as part of a gun control package.... Cuomo would love to announce a  [gun control] deal at his State of the State address Wednesday, if one can be reached in time.” (See “Aide To Gov. Cuomo Says Assembly Democrats Open To Tougher Gun Penalties” by Ken Lovett, 1/7/13 Daily News/Daily Politics [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics] ).

Mr. Lovett describes a lot of the behind the scenes horse trading and sausage making that according to his sources is going on as all sides (The Governor, Republicans in the State Senate and Democrats in the Assembly) weigh-in on a New York State gun control bill to be passed in the immediate aftermath of the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and Webster, New York.  It doesn’t take a lot of reading between the lines to see that the Republicans in the NYS Senate are ready to completely cave-in to the forces of gun control frenzy in New York State.

Maybe Berardelli and Gallo can get Brooklyn GOP State Senator Martin Golden to show up on their January 9th Brooklyn GOP blog-talk radio show to appear  along with the NRA president to explain the who, what, when, why and how of future gun control in New York State; and whether there will be any meaningful gun rights in New York after all is said and done. Gene and Russ might also get them  to discuss whether they think there might be a price to be paid by those who didn’t stand up for the gun rights of New York State residents.

On second thought, there's no need to give Kassar this update at all. As State Senator Golden's Chief of Staff, Kassar is already somewhat involved in all of the "horse trading and sausage making" on this gun control deal. As to what he might write in his Home Reporter- Spectator column about the "deal" and the gun control debate in New York --- he should just say, "There never was any meaningful debate...just a political deal that worked for everybody who mattered"