gun control is about population control, and population control is the founding principle of the new world order since the end of ww2. Liberty, independence, and self-determination are the old order, and only exist in theory anymore. Now it's all about firstly controlling information, flooding everything with propaganda in the so-called "news", in the schools, subtly in tv and movies (although that has become so overt that most movies now are just bludgeoning us with Correctness Indoctrination) and then watch the morons march toward the edge of the Totalitarian Cliff at the maniac urging of their politicians (commissars). I'd make the lemming comparison, but the rodents don't actually rush over the edge to their own demise like indoctrinated leftists do.
So, most people don't have their own ideas anymore, and that's what the politicians and their masters want, because it is the cornerstone of mass population control.
And for those of us on whom the information control has failed, who still do possess our own ideas and question this "progress" to global tyranny, well, the second step is controlling actions, or the ability to act. And that is gun control. people like us are not supposed to have access to guns - the rulers want to remove that right for the same reason our founding fathers insisted on having it.
http://www.elcivics.com/us_declaration_preamble.html And it's even better yet for them when they can set the indoctrinated "attack sheep" against us to demand gun control and mouth the words that were put in their empty heads. THen the propaganda can gleefully talk about how everyone wants tyranny of their own free will. And of course, the act of bearing one's own personal arms was always through history the proof of an individual being a "free man", but they want to disarm us not just for symbolic reasons. Disarmed slaves cannot protest much when they get herded into the boxcars for their "wrongthink".
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34738-and-how-we-burned-in-the-camps-later-thinking-what