Over reach first, then back up and look like you are moderating your demand.
Kind of like when Reagan was shot The next day on GMA, actress LEE Grand demanded... “The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns, and they can keep their rifles!”
The attempted assassination of Pres. Reagan reminds me of another example of the brazen hypocrisy of the left. The Brinks robbery that occurred in Nanuet, NY a few months later(BTW something that was literally to close to home for me). Some factions of the weather underground were responsible, and most of the cops and investigators involved to this day have good reason to suspect Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dhorn had, at least an indirect, tangential role in this. Funny how the then fledgling Brady Campaign and the other anti-gun nuts were strangely silent over this incident.