and one way of doing that is by having hearings so the american people could speak. not so politicians can speak. i would love the people whose kids were gunned down to have the chance to come to congress to tell them what this is meant for their families. and for that matter, for responsible gun owners to come to the senate and explain what their views of this is and then hopefully people that are have the responsibility of being in the senate can actually craft some bipartisan legislation. there is nobody else to do it. that is what our job in theory is about. and it is a long time since the senate worked that way, chuck, and you know that. i know. and senator cornin, a republican from texas after the massive the church shooting, in southern land springs did file a bill that was sort of a mandating an attempt to try to at least survey agencies to find out how to better fix the become ground check system and yet that bill didn t go anywhere.