Voters Over Polls and Pols Over Voters

See what I did there?
This Boston Herald opinion piece notes where the real power originates.

Gun control advocates sound puzzled by congressional resistance to relatively modest gun control legislation. Many cite a poll showing 90 percent of Americans support more background checks...

Half the nation views the federal government as a threat to individual liberties rather than a protector of those rights. Sixty-five percent recognize that the purpose of Second Amendment gun control rights is protection against tyranny, and 44 percent believe it’s likely the government will try to confiscate all privately owned guns over the next generation.

Hear, hear.

...the Political Class typically gets what it wants regardless of public opinion. What’s unusual about the gun control debate is that the Political Class appears to be stymied in one of those rare instances when it appears to agree with public opinion.

Go read it.