Good point. Prior to CT., support for gun control was at the lowest point in the last 40 years.
If we weather this without any significant legislation, save maybe some band-aid tightening of NICS reporting or whatever, the tiny silver lining is if we win this one, then we really, really, really have won the RKBA argument, stick a fork in it.
BIG 'if's' I fully and readily admit, but yet it's there.
The inaction after Columbine and VT were serious blows to the antis, who in terms of funding and membership already were on the ropes, but the inaction and their inability to pass anything after such high profile events it let everyone else know it. Granted, the kids weren't as young, but it established a pattern and a benchmark for us to win.
And in terms of the "political climate" being against us, I'm not sure by how much it really is. Obama won with a fair number of blue-collar types who fell for the class-warfare/class-envy stuff, but folks who otherwise love their guns every bit as much as the rest of us do. And aside from Fast and Furious, they were willing to vote for him again based on his relative inaction on anything gun-related.
And that's when things go rodeo.
If it comes to that, I feel bad for my kids... and the kids of the people doing the confiscating.