Gun Law - The New Approach

Got an email today from a former elected politician who was wounded by a deranged gunman, celebrating the change of leadership in the House:

  Amazing. Just amazing. Thanks to the work we’ve done together over the past several years, the House just concluded its first hearings on gun safety in almost a decade.
You demanded change last November, and we got it. Finally, we have a Congress that is willing to stand up to the gun lobby.

Standing up to the gun lobby seems to include prohibiting anyone with opposing views from testifying at their hearings including a sitting member of the house who was also shot and injured by a deranged gunman. That both deranged gunmen were Democrats who passed the very sort of background checks that Giffords & Co are pushing doesn't seem to matter.