Pure dumb luck for our side.
And a good issue to oppose. Its a little like how the GOP set themselves up on the tax fight at the end of the year, they jumped right in the trap.
So now Obama cried wolf on sequester and then on gun control. If he walks away he looks stupid when it dies in the Dem controlled Senate, after that procede vote. (MSNBC declared victory :"WE beat the NRA...HA-HA")
Pretty sweet!