No call for gun control was really made by the article, but I did note that it said that the guns that were used were not AK-47s and other "high power" weapons. I wonder what will be made of that, if anything? That they have to go after weapons in general?
If Obama is re-elected, I see trouble then. I don't know what's going to come of this now.
If you want to be a glass-half-full type about it, one could see it as a small nod to the fact that (for now) the "gun debate" in America is over, with AWB sunset, Heller vs. DC, and the overwhelming majority of shall-issue CCW states too. And a sneaky way of saying, "we have a crime problem, not a gun problem..."
The NRA could have attended, and pushed more "Project Exile" type efforts, although I think they did the right thing. The NRA gets enough "sell out" accusations lobbed their way by the GOA types as is. Showing up for an Obama-admin event under Holder... there was simply no upside for them in it.
I can't help but think, as politically a non-starter it is, that drug legalization could fix all of this. It would remove the profit incentive towards violence, and freeing up untold amounts of prison space and police and court resources wasted on non-violent offenders. That, combined with ridding ourselves of the notion of "rehabilitation" in our prison system. If someone can be rehabilitated, probation and minimum-security programs would do the trick already. The emphasis of incarceration needs simply to be segregation and protection of the population at large from violent and sexual offenders period...
Combine drug legalization with keeping our courts and prison focused on keeping violent people locked up as long as possible and away from the rest of us, and you'd see our violent crime rates fall lower than most anywhere in Europe.