For many reasons, I am not a fan of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.  However, I accept that her emotional response yesterday to the horrific murders in Las Vegas was genuinely and deeply felt.  But when she said, "Now is not the time to discuss gun control," she simply could not be more wrong.  Now is exactly the time not only to "discuss gun control", but to break the hold that the NRA has on American policy and policy-makers.  Not dealing with this now is simply an extension of the cowardice that has characterized (mostly) Republican lawmakers and office holders on this issue since at least the time of Reagan. The NRA is a relentlessly anti-life lobby, and it must be named and treated as such.