Makes sense to me. If they're willing to cut their own throats by using every shady/borderline illegal tactic they can to ram a wildly unpopular bill down our throats once, they can do it again for guns.
Of course, if they get amnesty passed they'll have another 20-30 million Democratico voters...
I'm not so sure. My gut feeling is there won't be any "major" anti-gun legislation until the next POTUS/Congress cycle. IMO, the Democratic leadership is betting that by getting socialized medicine and single-payer's camel's nose in the tent, they're setting us up for de-facto single party rule.
They are pushing everything that will push America Left. In the way that the welfare class, unions, and seniors all vote for them with 60% or higher margins, they're betting that by instituting socialized medicine, that the "productive class" will start voting for them with 60% regularity out of fear that conservatives will "cut" their medical access.
In essence the socialized medicine debate wasn't about medicine or access to care, but forced demographic shifts to try and push middle-America into one of their dependent demographics. Amnesty is about this as well. As they learned in '94, gun control hurts their agenda because it pushes socially conservative union and elderly voters out of their block. So IMO major gun control won't be pushed until they've cemented an electoral stranglehold over America with entitlement dependency, which will take another 20 years or so.
Our only hope is that they've grossly miscalculated, this is the Hail-Mary pass by the Democratic party who is actually still dying of red-state growth demographics outstripping blue states, and the MSM withering in the face of the Internet and radio etc. And that the legislation gets gutted/dead-lettered by the SCOTUS on constitutional grounds, and voter anger is so great it all comes to a screeching halt this fall, and that this is 1980/1994 all over again, but combined.
