This usage avoids the reification and mental confusions inherent in the popular meaning of the term. When gun control is defined as a gun owner's control over his or her firearm, it is clear that what victim disarmament activists want is not gun control, but rather the abolition of gun control. They want private citizens to have absolutely no control over guns. Firearm safety is usually described as a set of rules. However, rules have their shortcomings.
Rules are cheap substitutes for a genuine grasp of reality.
Korgan's statement is informed by philosophers David Kelley and Will Thomas of the Objectivist Center. When we act on principle, we do so because we grasp the facts of the situation, not because we ignore the facts and hew to a rule. With firearms, memorizing the safety rules is an important first step, but gun safety can also be described in terms of principles. The basic safety rules can be restated in terms of the principle of gun control. That is, keep control over where the muzzle is directed.