There is a very strange tone to your argument.
Most Americans are opposed to strict new gun control regulations, but pushing these same regulations will assure they’re gaining control of the House.
This is pretty much the same argument that pro-abortion types make. Most Americans favor legalized abortion, but it must be protected as a constitutional right because if it’s left up to the political process every woman who gets an abortion will be prosecuted for murder.
What?
Do you have a better explanation as to why the Dems cared SO MUCH about what we all agree was useless vote?