Democrats Have Never Been This Unified On Gun Control. That Could Change Everything.

Watch VICE News Tonight on HBO weekdays at 7:30.DES MOINES, Iowa — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) was in his last day of law school in 1994 when he got some horrific news: His 11-year-old nephew Jeremy was dead.The boy had been killed by a stray bullet fired by a classmate who’d brought a gun to school to get revenge on the kids who’d bullied him.“An identical twin, shot and killed by a 10-year-old lined up in front of the school that day,” Bullock told VICE News with a hitch in his voice Friday night before the Wing Ding Dinner, an annual Democratic fundraiser in Clear Lake. Those are remarkable positions for a red-state governor from a rural state with one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the country — ones that illustrate how much both the Democratic Party and America as a whole have shifted on gun control in recent years and continue to move in the wake of the dual massacres last week in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.DES MOINES, Iowa — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) was in his last day of law school in 1994 when he got some horrific news: His 11-year-old nephew Jeremy was dead.The boy had been killed by a stray bullet fired by a classmate who’d brought a gun to school to get revenge on the kids who’d bullied him.“An identical twin, shot and killed by a 10-year-old lined up in front of the school that day,” Bullock told VICE News with a hitch in his voice Friday night before the Wing Ding Dinner, an annual Democratic fundraiser in Clear Lake. Those are remarkable positions for a red-state governor from a rural state with one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the country — ones that illustrate how much both the Democratic Party and America as a whole have shifted on gun control in recent years and continue to move in the wake of the dual massacres last week in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.READ: El Paso and Dayton are making suburban Republicans squirm: "They're in a hell of a box"Bullock joined fifteen other Democratic presidential candidates in Des Moines for a gun violence forum by Moms Demand Action and Everytown, two groups backed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.