What you're ignoring is that when things with this kind of visibility happen, it causes a huge swell amongst the self-described moderates who "want to do something". They don't know what "something" is but they know it's not nothing. When this happens, you have to have a multi-pronged response. If you just say "no" to everything as many want to do, you risk being labeled as such and all your responses get ignored. "Oh, I don't care what they say about universal background checks or high capacity magazines because they wouldn't even discuss ______".

The pressure to "do something" will ease as time goes on but we have to get past the ground swell created by the immediacy of the event. That immediacy is precisely what the gun control totalitarians are trying to take advantage of and precisely what we have to take from them. They know this as well as we do and that's why they keep exerting constant pressure.

As Bruce Lee said, "be like water." I think that's exactly what the NRA is trying to do right now.