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>> does something like that, banning big gulps, or that's a simplificati simplification, does his involvement hurt the cause? >> i think the gun rights side has come up with a good talking point against mayor bloomberg but i would say this. the gun safety side does not do a good job politically as the gun rights side, and it has happened for decades. unless we learn these lessons, we're going to have more defeats than victories and we need those victories. >> why doesn't the gun rights side do as well? why does the gun rights side, why are they so much stronger than the gun control side or the...

Cheaper radio spots and, by the way, looking, where are they going to defend mark pryor. interest groups on both sides are determined to bring guns to the forefront. what's still unclear is who it will help. yesterday you saw former congressman patrick murphy who is a senior fellow at the center for american progress says he believes guns as an issue is going to help democrats in 2013. >> i think virginia will be ground zero for gun votes. will show virginians believe in background checks. >> call me a skeptic that the gun control crowd can play offense and succeed in a lower turnout election ...

Out. the ad really kind of actively pushes away at them. he's talking about president obama -- i did not support president obama's gun control proposal. he's getting this attack from the, you know, from the left, from the gun control side, from the mayor's group, and instead of trying to shore up against that attack and say, well, you know, i thought it was an okay bill but not the best bill. he's instead going the other way and he really seems to think his biggest challenge in the mid term is getting sort of the broad, sort of red state middle in arkansas, and he doesn't seem that worried abo...

In arkansas. >> i don't think it's a real move. people are studying trying to see what to do about this issue at this time. >> alec, your cover story this week is the end of the nra. and i look at that and i say, well, you clearly have money on the sort of pro gun control side that we haven't seen before but the context we're talking about the failure of background checks bill in april. that was sort of an example of the nra still being very powerful. >> i would say we're having this ongoing fight is a sign that things have changed. everyone thought this was just dead when the bill ailed. but ...

>> that's true. they find their cameras even in recess. >> i do think that is certainly part of it. and let's face it. they're just on different sides of the issue. i think there are obviously great regional differences in terms of how people view guns. the sort of anti-crime argument that might work in illinois or new york probably doesn't play in north dakota. the murder rate in north dakota is 11 per year. >> aren't we seeing in polls, for example, in south carolina, places that you might believe were traditional gun cultures, where the expanded background check was supported. >> i'm from t...