But, no, instead, they are working themselves into a sillier and sillier corner, and will end up both with an oppressive police state and the same exact problem will persist. The problem is that criminals have a monopoly on effective use of force, and no amount of taking weapons from the law-abiding will stop that. Only if you allow the law-abiding the means to effective self-defense will you be able to stop this problem.
More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens means less crime. How hard is that for anyone to comprehend?
But the gun-grabbers exhibit no interest in actually having less crime. Gun-grabbing is simply part and parcel of the formation of a totalitarian state.
Obvious, endlessly-verified and reinforced facts such as this run up against a physiological, neurological, and cognitive impasse within the corrupted brain of the Socialist. One might as well insist that a cloud can be taught to rain money upon the land....it's not gonna happen.