CRTV's Nate Madden and Eric Boehm from Reason Magazine discuss the student survivors from the Parkland shooting who emerged this weekend as activists in the fight for gun reform. Boehm believes we will see a renewed push for background checks but doubts any expansive reform will happen. Some of the biggest roadblocks in the fight for sweeping gun reform are the NRA and people who are big supporters of the second amendment.
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