Heir to the Busch family fortune resigned his lifetime membership in the NRA after the Senate vote to defeat background checks...In a letter to NRA President David Keane, Adolphus Busch IV said "I fail to see how the NRA can disregard the overwhelming will of its members who see background checks as reasonable".
"...the empty desks of 20 children marked absent today, and forever"
-Poet Richard Blanco at President Obama's Inauguration, 01/21/13