from these extreme pro-gun groups? i think they are in the sense that the nra remains a pretty powerful lobbying group for the gun lobby. and they are obviously looking at the 2014 elections. you saw these recent bills come out of the judiciary committee very much along partisan lines. the vote was 10-8. the democrats who didn t support the stricter gun control laws are from states that already have pretty strict gun control laws as it is. the eight republicans mostly from southern states, places like texas, iowa, south carolina. so i think a lot of what we knew coming into this, those factors about region, about senators who are from states that are more sort of progun, more southern, those factors are still going to be in play as the president wants to see these bills work their way through the senate. i think he still has to worry about whether or not he s going to be able to keep the democratic coalition together. there are 55 democratic senators