Just think how Mitt Romney would have reacted to this shooting if he'd been elected...

[backscatter712]

"Assault rifles are people, my friend!"

[Hugabear]

1. "We need to ensure that all teachers and students have the right to carry guns in the classroom!"

After all, if EVERYONE is armed, then we'd all be safer!

[RomneyLies]

2. He'd keep his big mouth shut

Until things die down a bit and he's focus grouped enought talking points to try and slide by with the gun lobby.

He'd probably end up doubling down on MOAR GUNZ, too.

[reformist2]

3. We would have been insipid, uninspiring, careful not to step on any toes.

[spin]

4. Mitt Romney was no friend of gun rights. ...

He merely tried to act like he was because he wanted the conservative gun owner vote.

Romney’s Flip-Flops on Gun Control Over the Years
by Jesse Singal Jul 25, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

As he has on so many other issues, Mitt Romney has executed a major flip-flop on gun rights—and told some mistruths along the way. Jesse Singal takes us through Romney’s gun past.

As governor of Massachusetts, Romney had been able to tack a mostly pro-gun-control course. Not entirely—the NRA had still given him a "B" during his gubernatorial run in 2002, and he did support a few modest NRA-approved initiatives. But overall, Massachusetts voters were rather predictable on guns, and in 2004 Romney signed what the AP would later call “one of the toughest assault weapons laws in the country.” The Bay State had long had sturdy gun-control laws, and its residents liked them.

But in “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire, in the early days of his presidential campaign, Romney was facing his electoral future. If he really wanted to be a viable presidential candidate—let alone a viable presidential candidate for a party blissfully wed to unfettered gun rights—he needed to start singing a different tune. The guy in the NRA cap was just one man, but there were millions more gun owners in Romney’s immediate future, in Iowa and Ohio and Florida and everywhere else. For a candidate whose opponents on the right were hell-bent on hanging the RINO label on him, it was a problem.

***snip***

As he has on abortion, health-care reform, and a host of other issues, Romney has constantly calibrated his views on guns and gun control to reflect not an internally coherent ideology, but rather what a given questioner wants to hear at a given point. It’s the only way to explain the very casual, easily disproved moments of dishonesty. After all, you don’t just “forget” that you’re not a lifelong hunter, or that you don’t own a gun.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/25/romney-s-flip-flops-on-gun-control-over-the-years.htm

In reality Romney might have pushed for far stronger gun control than Obama will. Time will tell how Obama will act but Obama was friendly to gun owners during his first term and he doen't change his views as often or as easily as Romney has.