NRA finally meets its match: Why Richard Martinez should have them shaking

[CTyankee]

66. We just haven't outnumbered them in Congress yet, due to the NRA money

stranglehold and the 60 vote "majority" idea in the Senate. Let's get back to the real majority -- I mean actual, mathematically -- and you've got a different story...no more thumb on the scale with the 60 vote crap.

I can tell you my personal experience with gun violence in my own family. The shooting that killed my niece was something my brother never got over. He was never very politically active but after her shocking death at age 24, he just went into his own world...and drank. A series of strokes finally killed him at age 62. Since that happened I have learned that many marriages where there is the loss of a child often fail. Grief over such a wretched loss tears apart people's lives. It does not surprise me that the Sandy Hook families experience problems the rest of us never have to deal with.

As for the polling among people who do not take action even tho they favor gun control, they vote on many different issues in their lives, if they have no personal stake as I do. They are beset with their own personal economic situation, wages kept miserably low, unions being diminished, voter ID crushing their political participation, education suffering...anything and everything to keep them down and out of the political picture. Plus, they are multi-focused and the gun enthusiasts are single focused. Liberals have many issues they have high interest in: just look at DU's rich forums and groups...what a widely diverse little universe we have here, so typical of the liberal progressive!

It is no surprise to me that a small but fanatical minority on the gun issue currently prevails in our sick political system. Time, demographic change, and the possibility that more of the 99% have a shot at a better future are the keys to getting lots of changes in our political system, gun control INCLUDED.