I am not a conspiracy nut, but sometimes I wonder if the liberal politicians and media have a vested interest regarding outlawing firearms. The answer, of course, is that the firearms issue is not about safety, but about power. Politicians and the liberal elite are convinced at the presuppositional level that the key to utopia is the Messianic State. People must not be allowed private ownership of firearms because Statist religion does not trust people to take care of themselves. Hence, the real issue is not gun control, but people control.
Armed citizens are a threat to the politicos quest for power.
No matter that our Founding Fathers were insistent that the best defense against political tyranny was an armed citizenry. That was the eighteenth century and of course irrelevant today. Now just when did George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Adams, et. It needs to be remembered, constantly, that every major genocidal action of the past hundred years was conducted by national governments against their own citizens. And the first step to genocide was always disarming the people.