does something like that, banning big gulps, or that s a simplificati simplification, does his involvement hurt the cause? i think the gun rights side has come up with a good talking point against mayor bloomberg but i would say this. the gun safety side does not do a good job politically as the gun rights side, and it has happened for decades. unless we learn these lessons, we re going to have more defeats than victories and we need those victories. why doesn t the gun rights side do as well? why does the gun rights side, why are they so much stronger than the gun control side or the gun safety, whatever you want to call it? if you look at the nra, by far the largest gun rights group out there, an organization out there for 100 years or more and then you look at the major gun groups today, the gun safety groups, bloomberg, gabby gifford s group, the sandy hook group, combined they have been around for ten years. the gun rights people have a