It should be obvious even to the educated and literate, if utterly misguided, dyed-in-the-wool liberal ideologues who staff and run the New York Times that if you disarm the law-abiding, you render them helpless against those who disparage all rule of law, who invariably arm themselves with all the latest hardware, and who prey on the disarmed.
It’s not rocket science.
Yet even this level of elementary cogitation is beyond the blinkered morons who write for the Times.
Certainly the criminals have discovered this very elementary fact, and are taking advantage of it on a daily basis to shear the Chicago sheep and murder wherever they please.
Of course they know, that's the point. A cowed population is a controllable population, one that's easy pickings for a government which disparages all rule of law and is armed with the latest hardware.