Maybe an eloquent and emotional plea from survivors of the nation’s most recent mass shooting will turn the political tide by capitalizing on the one thing that could finally bring America reasonable gun control: money.

After a whirlwind national catharsis over the country’s horrific plague of gun violence and mass shootings, a handful of high-school teenagers who survived the Douglas high school massacre in Parkland, Fla. have created a groundswell of public interest in government action.

The interest so far has been in putting the National Rifle Association, its congressional loyalists and even President Donald Trump on the defensive – all good moves.

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