Well the Republicans are probably thinking they should just give in and take this issue off the table in the next election... Cheese eating surrender monkey of the GOPe.
The House should just pass a bill making any crime involving a gun a federal crime with a minimum 20 year sentence. The Dems will never go for that because it would lock up a whole lot of their voter base. Then we would have a great illustration about who is “serious” about gun crime and who isn’t.