[Ted Grant]

I don’t think they have lost the narrative at all.

[catfish1957]

I agree. They are exploiting the recent tragedy to the maximum.

[98ZJ USMC]

I don’t think they have lost the narrative at all.

I don't know. I chatted up a good friend of mine, who is in his early thirties, yesterday. He specifically mentioned that a lot of people around him, who were ambivalent towards guns/gun control, etc., are waking up and getting pissed off. These are folks he said rarely, if ever, even mention guns at all.

[Alas Babylon!]

Agree. And if they ever do lose the narrative, why they’ll just order up another mass killing or two.

[aberaussie]

Bttt

[YankeeReb]

I don’t think they have lost the narrative at all.

I notice they haven't talked too much about the murders of the firefighters in Webster NY. I also notice that BamBam didn't interrupt his Hawaiian vacation extravaganza (all on our dime) to visit with the families of the victims of that massacre. A few reasons I suspect (I'm a cynic I know)

1) The gunman served 17 years in prison for killing his grandmother with a hammer in 1980. He was convicted only of manslaughter, and was paroled in 1998. Maybe Liberals see that this would cause the masses to start calling for more stringent sentences on convicted psychos, and that goes against all that the Schumers of the world believe in.

2) The suspect was already banned from owning guns. Notice it didn't stop him from setting a fire, waiting for the firemen to arrive then gunning them down. Even if he didn't have a gun who's to say the fire he set wouldn't have taken out a fireman.

3)NY has the toughest gun laws in the country. He was forbidden to possess a gun.....didn't stop him.

So this psycho didn't fit the media template therefore the story will be forgotten within a week.

[meatloaf]

I agree somewhat. Senator Manchin’s 180 degree change was an indicator that those in Congress that aren’t assured of re-election are still looking at one of the third rails of American politics. That Manchin was caught up in the emotion of the moment and felt he had to shove his foot in his mouth is bizarre. He was quickly innundated by the response from West Virginian’s. I still haven’t received a response to my email.

Gore’s campaign debacle is still too fresh to ignore. The Democratic leadership can’t afford to lose the Senate. With gun control, they’re flirting with disaster. Obama may face the last half of his term contending with a Republican controlled Congress.

[Road Glide]

“I don’t think they have lost the narrative at all.”

I’d have to agree with you. The original article above contains much wishful thinking and whistlin’ in the wind.

The “dialogue” on gun control is not over — it hasn’t even really yet begun. Expect this to ramp up in January, and consume much activity in D.C. through the spring and summer.

I would expect any gun control bill to be hundreds of pages long, with provisions deliberately “buried”. Another one of those laws that (as Nancy Pelosi said) has to be passed to find out what’s really in it...

[redgolum]

Sadly, I think you are correct