I'd say that statement is a little premature. But not much. If HR 45 or a new and vastly improved "Assault Weapons Ban" were to pass and be "rigorously" enforced, then will be the time for that statement to hold.
I wouldn't.
I'd say it was already past due time when the first Brady bill was passed. I'd say it was time again when that bullet separated Vicky Weaver's frontal lobes. I'd have said it was again as Branch Davidians roasted alive or choked to death on CS. It was time yet again when Elian Gonzalez was sent back to a Communist country, when Alberto Sepulveda was shot in the back and killed, when David Olofson was carted off for a malfunctioning gun, when Carl Dregga tried to restore his rain washed embankment and was nearly bankrupted out of his house by capricious officials, when Red's Trading Post was nearly harassed out of business, when the first bank bailout was passed absent Constitutional authority, when Bill Akins device was first approved... then made a felony to own by the BATFE, when Len Savage got that last visit from the Feebies due his testimony in Olofson's trial...
How much more is it going to take? When does that "final line" get crossed? How many times are we going to re-draw that line in the sand one yard back...