The Schoolhouse Rock references made me sad, since it reminded me of the Family Guy bit of the singing bill being stabbed by a trash collector's stick & stuffed in a garbage bag...
RPRNY (and I'm sure others) have it right, that this cost-free initiative with direct impact for hundreds of thousands, and eventual impact for tens of millions (i.e. practically every gun owner will end up with a cheap can, same as every other country), instant regulation-free implementation, is simply too much of a niche issue to take precedence over the infeasible Rube Goldberg machine of whatever controversial system will replace the Obamanable Care Act. Nope, gotta focus all our energy on charging that windmill for a solid year, year-and-a-half before they can even think about how much good they'll promise to do for us gun owners after the mid-term elections, if they could only get 2/3rds of both houses...
I really, really, reaaalllllllyyy hope the Democrats soon come to their senses and start ditching the hardline gun control stance. Not because I want them to start winning elections (God, no) but because I want the fear of God put into Republican officials on this issue, for once. They've been paying lip service for thirty stinking years, and have accomplished jack and squat (sneaking a sunset clause into the AWB does not count when you're also voting for it) despite numerous golden opportunities. They have no reason to actually resolve this issue in our favor, since they believe we will lose the desire to support them in elections & donations, and they don't stand to directly benefit from loosening gun control themselves via insider trading. So they will do nothing for us (at best, and pull a Bush anti-gun backstab at worst), until some upstart Democrat starts saying things about loosening gun control (gee, kind of like Sanders for a while early in the primary when he was catching fire) at which point our indolent Republican incumbents will feel the need to speak out in our favor (gee, kind of like Trump's sudden full-bore support of gun rights at about the same time, at which point the NRA endorsed him & he really took off*) or better yet back up these cheap words with actual policies. Competition, my friends, is what we require.
TCB
*I mention this as yet another example of how patently obvious it has become that the "tiny niche" status of gun rights is the phoniest of phony social illusions carefully erected over decades by politicians & the media to keep us from holding them accountable for the theft of our civil liberties
