I'm guessing that this would be their plan. Look at how these things have been done in the past - Mao, Stalin, Chavez, Hitler, Castro - the same plan but on a much larger scale. Demonize the good people to the point that you have an excuse to eliminate them.
Why do you think the left hates the second amendment so much? Because it's designed as the reset tool for our constitutional republic and they don't like our constitutional republic.
Simply put, they want us dead.
Re The Left:
They are “People of the Lie”
and all that implies.