Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Ride from Newtown edition

Tomor 26 riders will bike from Newtown2DC to raise awareness for common sense gun reform. Tweet your support using #Newtown2DC
' @ChrisMurphyCT via web
Dan Rodricks:

Deaths at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colo., thousands upon thousands of homicides and suicides, and even the shooting of one of their own, then-Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, could not get Congress to act in a way that would make a difference.

Sandy Hook moved the national conversation to where it needs to be.

In case anyone has forgotten why we are engaged in this, a team of 26 bicyclists heads out of Newtown, Conn., on Saturday for the nation's capital, with a stop in Baltimore scheduled for Monday night. The 400-mile ride is meant to serve as a reminder about what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School ' and how so many of us felt when we heard the news. We felt shock and sadness, anger and resolve.

A Newtown resident, Monte Frank, resolved to do something.

Diarist peterolson has put together the following diaries about the Sandy Hook ride that starts today from Newtown, goes through NJ and Baltimore and winds up with a press conference in DC:

' Sandy Hook Ride on Washington - March 9-12
' Sandy Hook Ride on Washington - March 9-12 - Day 2 Schedule Update
' Sandy Hook Ride on Washington - March 9-12 - Day 3 Schedule update

Follow them on twitter with #Team26

USA Today has something as well:

The riders will stop for several rallies along the route, according to the event's organizer, Monte Frank. They will join members of the Virginia Tech Victims Cycling team Tuesday in College Park, Md.

Let's roll. #Newtown2DC
' @MonteFrank1 via Twitter for BlackBerry®
More politics to come below the fold.