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What are you watching on TV? "I binge watched Jessica Jones, which is, again, a Marvel superhero thing. It's a phenomenal feminist take on a superhero. This season, every director was a woman, some of them were friends. I think it was written all by women. They take the normal issues that people have, that women have, and they turn it up to exponential levels. I was really impressed by it." Hook is where I kinda really flipped out, and from there, the bill [H.J. Res 40. See side box for more.]. No! We're going to make a change," says the Everytown For Gun Safety supporter. "Nobody protects their house with an automatic weapon or goes hunting with an AR-15… When there are shootings, we yell at them [NRA], so we don't yell at the gun manufacturers. It's like the Wizard of OZ: Be afraid of that guy over there. Don't pay any attention to that manufacturer behind the curtain. That's a problem because they're stopping the conversation." The other problem, Jason adds, is the nonsensical Dickey Amendment passed by former congressman Jay Dickey of Arkansas that "forbid the government from studying gun violence. Literally, don't study it... The government should be the neutral party, the referee. You pass a law to make us not analyze one of the major problems in our nation today, just because you want to make sure nobody gets real information and it becomes a problem? Any sane human being sees that's a problem." [See side box for why the former congressman regrets passing this amendment.] What gives Jason hope is the kids and the moms who are pushing for action. "Kids from Parkland are on fire. They're going to keep everyone else energized. I don't think these kids are going away. Most of them are going to be voting in a year or two, if not this year, so, I'm hopeful in a way I haven't been in sometime, and just trying to be a part of it as much as I can and support any way I can." A self-proclaimed "big old geek" with a comic book collection consisting of several thousand (stored at his mom's house), he is the dad who takes his three children to see every superhero movie released. We talk comic book movies and about the complex characters in them. "Marvel tends to do things right, 'cause if it's just dudes in tights fighting, I could care less. The thing that always interests me about superheroes was the same thing you do with mythology or Grey's Anatomy. Let's take these people that are kinda heroes or are perceived as heroes, let's look at their flaws. Let's look at who they are as people, and how tough it is to do this thing. It kinda sucks a lot of the time. If you're one of the best soldiers ever, you get tons of praise and medals, but you leave your family, you put your life in danger. All this other grief comes with it. That's been the case with Odysseus from the Odyssey. So was the case in my family, and every family I grew up knowing." A couple of superhero films he appreciates are Black Panther ("That is religion in my house. I've been waiting for that movie basically my whole life.") and Logan ("For me, that was to superhero movies, what Unforgiven was to westerns. It's like, you can do another one, but why? You're never going to beat that."). So, what superhero would you like to portray? I query. Reluctant to answer since "a lot of the great ones are taken," Jason finally plays along. Captain America, because he too