What exactly do you think is the motivation for liberals pushing gun control?
Gun control is people control.
Each party would love to expand their base. The larger the base, the more likely success come election time.
Instead of talking about Republicans, I want to concentrate on the Democrats.
Among the many different voting groups the Democrats have, the two largest in their voting base are government dependents and victims. Victims love Democrats and Democrats love victims.
Democrat politicians are not dumb, they just appear to be. They know quite well that disarming law abiding citizens will do nothing to bring down gun violence or murders. In fact, they know it would only increase in those statistics.
If they could achieve their ultimate goal, we would no longer be allowed to have guns. Only the police and criminals would then have guns. That makes all of us victims to the criminals. Eventually, crime would get so out of hand that the new group of victims would cry out for help because we would no longer be able to defend ourselves.
Okay, so how do we fight this Big Crime? The same way Democrats fight big pharma, big business, big tobacco, big wall street........and that is with bigger government.
So they grow government: more police, more courts, more lawyers, more prisons, more laws, more big government.
A real ingenious plan really, because not only would Democrats create more victims, at the same time, they would expand their voting base of public workers since they usually vote Democrat as well.
Bottom line: Democrats don't have anything against guns--Democrats don't like that we are able to defend ourselves. Because when people don't need government to do things for them, Democrats lose and Republicans win.