No surprise there. The candidate is leaving yellow lines and flat armadillos in his wake as he veers from the right shoulder to the middle these days. The NRA's lip-prints are not what a candidate wants on his collar when courting the women voters Bush must have.
Polls show that gun slaughter, particularly of children, rates high among women's concerns.
This is reflected by the Million Mom March, a grassroots nationwide gun-control movement. Its showcase event is this Mother's Day at the Washington Mall. Bush is Clintonesque in his ability to project empathy without spending any. Undoubtedly right now he's figuring out a way to tell these mothers, some of whom have lost children to gunfire, he feels their pain. Gun carnage will always be a hard issue on which Bush can offer any bold solutions.