Dana Milbank predicts NOTHING will change in the way of gun laws

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5. it's not that

Americans, or at least a sizeable portion of them, like their guns and believe that if they're not committing a crime with them, that they shouldn't have to give them up.

And from a political standpoint, gun control isn't a long-lasting issue. Nobody wants to be kicked out of office for voting on a law that has a shaky, at best, chance of actually reducing violence.

Personally, if I had to scede the gun control issue to keep enough Democrats in office to keep abortion legal, keep furthering gay rights, civil rights, economic fairness and environmental issues, I'll do that.

I'm not going to go to war on this issue, and a lot of elected democrats aren't either, and republicans certainly aren't going to do anything.

So Milbank is right, it's status quo as usual.

Will there be one day when the climate might change? Possibly, but we're not even close to there right now. Even after this tragedy.