Not a huge deal. Unfortunately, this bill was killed. So that means that people can get guns more easily, kill people more easily, and get fried in a federal penitentiary more easily. Meanwhile, putting someone to death who killed three people is looking really good for Governor Ridge or Governor Ventura during an election year. This brings me to the Mao Tse-tung quote that you can find on the quotes page.
Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
It's happened before, it'll happen again. Many people on death row have been proven innocent. These are people who could have been killed by the government if evidence clearing their names hadn't surfaced. They are going to be killed so some power hungry bureaucrat can look good in the eyes of the bloodthirsty American public. Maybe American citizens are more the problem than politicians are.