Yours is a good point too, PGalt. There is little doubt in my mind that the government (at any level) knows that less guns means more crime. It should follow, then, they are not interested in saving lives and property, but more concerned with attaining their great society at the expense of freedom, the blood of Citizens, and the destruction of private property. What better way to attain those goals than by outlawing the means that would hinder those goals while insuring their own safe haven against retribution or revolt?