Remember the blue ruin forecast here when Obama came in? Remember I said America is so much in love with its guns there would be little change, cosmetic at most, and later that he'd do nothing to hurt Clinton's run in '16? And the squeaking that I was trying to mollify concerned shooters?

Obama did what presidents are obliged to do: skirt hot potatoes and use "selected human tragedies"---the serial mass murders providing ample opportunities---to comfort a grieving nation and lobby for gun control. Making political hay from big storms or big murders is what politicians do.

Even Trump is musing about a conversation with the NRA about change in gun laws, according to the Net couple days ago, which is more than Obama has ever done.