Wasn’t ol’ Serpent Head just on the Sunday shows saying precisely NOT to do that? I personally can not STAND CarVile, but he is a pretty right-on when it comes to politics.
Carville was thinking small - gun control is a bad issue if you're trying to win an election. Obama (or, more likely, Jarrett) is thinking big - this is just the issue to provoke a hot crisis that requires martial law to be imposed before the election.