Except that this time, the NRA has signaled it would support banning devices that change a semiautomatic weapon to an automatic weapon.  To me, that's a good first step.  So instead of trying to make something worse out of it all, why not take that one on jointly, as something both sides can agree on, and push it through.  We can hope that in that process of working together, we may take baby steps towards finding more areas of commonality.  It may be "small ball," but since "swinging for the fences doesn't seem to work, maybe we should start here?