I guess they looked at Chicago and said, this is working great. Maybe we can get 500+ murders in every city if we ban and confiscate all guns from law abiding citizens.
Obama has a cabinet member who said his goal was to get US gasoline prices up to the same level as Europe's, so everything would be "fair".
Perhaps this administration's goals are the same with the murder rate. Not enough people in Chicago getting whacked to compete with London yet.