My favorite American heroes are the ones who went for the long slog, even when their cause appeared to be hopeless to the point of ridiculous. Civil rights activists in the 1950s. Generations' worth of suffragists who trudged around the country collecting signatures on petitions to give women the right to vote. Also, anybody who works on gun control. "We do just seem to slog along, from one tragedy to the next," said Tom Mauser of Colorado Ceasefire. The gun control... (GunPolicy.org)