While perusing a recent story on President Obama's legacy on gun safety issues, a couple grafs jumped out at me.

In 2010 he signed a law that enabled people to take loaded guns into national parks, and later that year reversed a decade-long ban that had stopped people from taking unloaded guns in checked bags on trains. "My administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners - it has expanded them," Obama wrote in an op-ed for The Arizona Daily Star in the wake of the shooting of Giffords in January 2011.

In other words, following the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords, Obama was trying to convince gun owners in Arizona that they should work with him on gun legislation because he had actually expanded their rights. It was a fool's errand, as we now know. That earned him zero legislative wins on the issue and no love from the gun nuts, who just kept stockpiling more and more guns because Obama was surely coming to get ‘em.