The tide is turning against the NRA

[billh58]

(CNN)Nearly a decade ago, Barack Obama and large Democratic majorities in Congress demonstrated one of the most prolific records of legislating in the history of the republic. As a congressional staffer at the time, I would have never guessed that where they failed -- in any effort to take on the National Rifle Association and pass gun safety legislation -- a new generation of freshmen members of Congress would succeed. But this month, that's exactly what we're witnessing.

Tragically, the cost to American families and communities while we waited for this progress has been far too high. The vote by the House to approve the Bipartisan Background Checks Act comes just over one year after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and six years after the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut.

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This vote is the first meaningful response by the new Democratic majority to an epidemic that cost nearly 40,000 American lives just in the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

t's also the latest proof point of a tectonic shift in the politics of an issue that has for so many years vexed those in search of solutions.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/05/opinions/tide-is-turning-against-nra-and-in-favor-of-gun-control-legislation-ambler/index.html

The shift was a long time coming, but it has begun and there is nothing the NRA or GOA (or their apologists) can do to stop it.