comprehensive gun laws is it's harder to get guns. i think the same would be true here. if you were just to expand the background check system so everybody had to have a background check no matter where they bought it, that would save -- >> you say just. with all of bloomberg's money and your good effort, you get two senators blown out of office because they dared to back you. >> the nra is smart about the way it does these things. in addition, you had a bunch of people involved in those like the koch brothers who wouldn't recognize a rifle if they fell over one. if you're a democrat, the last session was your wish list. and some people were angry about a lot of other things. >> sam, you're a general political correspondent, could it be what happened is guns like abortion have joined sort of the blue plate specials of the right and left.