A group of 4 Senators negotiated a gun control bill that few thought was possible just weeks prior. (CNN)

Gun control impetus has a very short shelf life. Time and again the motivation to do anything that changes the status quo rapidly dissipates after a mass shooting event. The public and law makers alike are up in arms in the immediate aftermath of these tragic events but are coaxed into inaction by time and those with vested interests in ensuring no new legislation makes it out of ‘committee’. This time seemed a little different with some actual movement on gun control legislation most thought almost impossible in the hyper partisan and bitterly divided nation.