. >> i want to bring in democratic political analyst mark hannah, republican strategist joe watki watkinsf you. don't know how many folks affected by newtown directly, her mother, by the way, is a teacher at sandy hook, i've had on this many practice. you look at the polls and you see up to 90% of american people supporting specific change, background checks in particular. mark, what happened here? did the democrats and the president not do a great job? were they outmaneuvered by the gun lobby? >> i think a year has gone by and we all need -- it's very imperative that we remember exactly how we felt on that year ago when we saw these images coming in through the news on msnbc and others. it's very difficult in this sort of rapid 24-hour news cycle to keep that memory alive and to keep those images very vivid in our heads. i think that if we have public opinion going sort of episodically from shooting to shooting to shooting, it's going to be very difficult to build popular and political support for proactive and effective gun legislation. we've seen they federal level more laws passed tha