This from todays Portland [Maine, US] Press Herald:

'Suzanne Hanvey may be "just" a freshman, but she isn't waiting around for adults to figure out what to do in the wake of Florida's deadly school shooting.

She and students attending at least five Maine high schools plan on walking out of school for 17 minutes on March 14, one minute for each person who died last week. It's part of a nationwide student-led series of protests, spurred by the passionate calls for gun control from student survivors of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

"I want change now," said Hanvey, a 14-year-old who attends Thornton Academy in Saco. "I'm not going to wait for it. I'm not going to wait for some adult to make change."'
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As in other progressive movements, young people are taking the lead.

I would not be surprised if candidates in even moderately red districts can gain state or national office by running against the NRA and their lap-dogs:

"My folks taught me to shoot when I was X years old, and I've owned a gun ever since. I've spent hours with my own kids teaching them gun safety, and I want them to grow up to teach their kids, not get mowed down by some jerk with an assault rifle. Like a lot of us, and unlike my opponent, I think it's high time we started putting the safety of our children ahead of the profits of the gun companies.

"I own a blah-blah-blah deer rifle, which I bought after a background check, and which I keep locked away from my kids. I don't own an assault rifle because I don't kill people. But every fall, in the deer season I go out, and when I know I have a clean shot, I bag my buck and bring it home for my family to eat.

I never go out on the first day of the season, because that's when any fool who can buy a gun is out there blasting away at anything that moves. No training, no skill, and no sense. Like a lot of us, I'm outraged that it's easier to buy a gun than get a driver's license.

I used to belong to the NRA, but, unlike my opponent, I quit when they stopped supporting responsible ownership and became paid stooges for the gun companies.

Putting gun profits ahead of our kids is disgusting, and it has to stop. Now."

Something like that, only not so windy and not scrawled on the back of an e-envelope. It would be a second step.