You guys are not reading between the lines. The ONLY reason that he said what he had to say was because his side is GETTING CLOBBERED in Congress right now, and is in danger of losing everything.
He’s trying to come up with something that can pass...and he’s finding that it isn’t easy.
Bingo! If these idiots had half a brain they would realize that more Americans are armed now then when they started blathering about gun control after Sandy Hook(wait for me, I'm your leader).
But I do not believe he is changing his tactic, he is just stalling for more time. The paranoid side of me says that these idiots are planning a staged event. I can see a "Rodney King" type event in the spirit of the Nazi Crystalnacht(sp). It will be something like "dozens of defenseless blacks killed by white gunmen with AR-15's". GUn control with the added racial thing. Of course, the idiots will probably bungle that like they did with Fast and Furious.