The script

The Huffington Post reports that Frank Lautenberg is refusing to pull his  his 10+ round magazine prohibition amendment from the cybersecurity bill:

“… Lautenberg said he has no intention of waiting to debate his proposal.  “I’m not prepared to do that,” Lautenberg told The Huffington Post.  “We want to connect safety with reality. And the reality is that we lose more people every year to gun murder than we do in the military … It is ridiculous.”  Lautenberg said his amendment “belongs in a security measure” like the cybersecurity bill and said he plans to keep pushing it until it gets heard on the Senate floor …”

I’m not buying it.  There aren’t the votes in either chamber to pass this and everybody knows it.  This is all an act.  Here what I think the script is going to be:

1. Egged on by the leftist media, Lautenberg, McCarthy, etc. keep mouthing off about gun control.  The general public shows no interest in the issue.
2. Something else comes along (like the political conventions later this month), and the media loses interest.
3. Lautenberg  pulls his amendment.  Politicians and leftist media outlets blame the NRA, ignore the fact that they were the only ones pushing it in the first place.
4. Antis try pressuring candidates up and down the ticket to support their issues.  An overwhelming majority blows them off.
5. The antis further descend into madness.