the house and watching what's happened in the senate. you have got a number of rural democrats, starting with senator reid, a number of rural democrats up for re-election next time this is not an issue of popularity turks is one of intensity a lot of gun owners vote that single issue, whereas voters who may favor controls tend to vote on a lot of other issues. the politics of this over the last decade and a half have been purely really in the gun owner's favor. you look at president obama's record, he signed two bills on guns to allow more guns on national parks and amtrak that is the direction they have been going. i think is a real uphill struggle to try to get anything through the democrat senate, let alone the republican house. >> alex, what happened on friday though, what happened on friday may have raised the intensity meter of people who heretofore haven't had the same intensity as you the nra. time all good americans get that intensity meter up. >> representative davis, i want to ask you about the things that prevent this from happening. i guess two ways to look at it,