yet the men and women on Capitol Hill who should be doing something about it have been ducking for the past four years. Too many lawmakers who know full well the need for tighter gun safety laws have been spooked by "gun rights" groups into believing that talking about more controls is political suicide. True, the controlling players in Congress have been less than open to serious gun-control advocacy; but this hush is now giving way to truly bad moves to undo some of the best gun safety measures on the books and to give the gun industry an excessively large and unnecessary special-interest shield against lawsuits. Here are some of the main issues: