Here's a note ...

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... for the GOP:

But it’s a myth that there is no longer any audience for gun control. It is, in fact, almost exactly the same audience that President Obama is pursuing with virtually everything else he does. Gun control is deeply unpopular with the portions of the white electorate most hostile to Obama anyway: blue-collar whites and college-educated white men.

The note for the GOP is this: if you give any, any audience to gun control, you'll lose at least enough voters who go for the GOP because there's no where else for them to go. Like me.

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