it will play into suburban swing areas, places i live like philadelphia. and it remains to be seen how much the democrats are prepared to campaign on this issue. he that s the key. the intensity gap, without question, you have seen it narrowing. we have never seen it around gun control right now, motivated out of the worst of circumstances. but it s there. but that s not what leads to policy change. it is an element. the nra doesn t beat you with money. it beats you in organizing and at the polls. do you think the democrats will galvanize around this issue, even though the midterms are so far away in terms of things that could happen between now you and then and that people will do what they have never done before, michael. they will go to the polls and say i don t know what else is on the agenda today, but i am voting for or against this man or woman based on what they did or didn t do on gun controls.
guns. what are you really marching for? because from where it looks like a march to burn the constitution and rewrite the parks that you all like in kraon. is the message from the fnra. he says his act is willing challenged by those who support gun control. he seems a tad worry. the council was quiet yesterday and didn t weigh in on the march. all of the research shows an intensity gap between gun rights proponents who have the intensity and gun control advocates on the other side who didn t have nearly as much intensity. a problem the gun rights proponents have taken vag of a long time.
not understand gun culture. they are right to notice when people get terminology wrong. but this is a fairly mainstream thing to do. these are tools that many americans have in their houses and not being able to understand that, and see the sensational angle is very dangerous in trying to cover this issue. for me, this weekend was so newsworthy because of the intensity gap. it suggested that the nra and guns rights activists have so much more intensity they are willing to go out and vote on an issue, where activists are intense. do you see that gap changing now? there are two things that changed on saturday. one was the intensity gap, the willingness of people to vote on this issue, and the second was the empathy gap. the problem for decades has been intensity, and white and suburban advocates said they aren t willing to show up for black and brown children who die
oer you look at saturday and you think something might be changing. that that intensity gap may be shrinking, that the intensity was clearly on the side of the gun control advocates on saturday all across the country. i think that is why remember, victor, after parkland, all of us on tv were very skeptical. we said something different this time and i think journalists were afraid to say it because we have been here before where the country suffered a catastrophic loss at a mass shooting and people moved on to the next thing. this time it really is different. i saw it in new york and you all saw it in washington. i think the most striking where actually in the smaller towns from spokane to springfield and toledo to tucson, the smaller communities there were voter registration drives and calls for action at the ballot box where we could actually see something happen in november. that might be good, that might
corporations cannot take on conservatives and expect us not to fight back. the leader of the state senate said they would block the jet fuel sales exemption. but georgia republicans might have accomplished something very different pointing out the success of the #boycott nra movement. companies from cyber security companies to hearing aids have ended affiliations with the gun group. wall street journal reporting blackstone group which has more than $400 billion under management this weekend asked outside fund managers about stakes in companies that make or sell guns. michelle goldberg is a columnist at the new york times. when you look at that list of companies and think about the political power of the nra, are you surprised. what s interesting is for most of our lives even if the nra position was a majority position, the intensity gap between the nra and people who wanted more gun control was disproportionate.