This "gun control" debate shows the authoritarian's frustration with the Constitution,

the authoritarian intelligentsia who gets frustrated with the limits on their power created by the Constitution always find useful idiots to champion their cause and voluntarily support the stripping of our rights in the face of the preferred leviathan

for the "go to" example, look at FDR using the Great Depression to threaten our Supreme Court with court packing in order to have them bend the knee and authorize federal expansion that created this police state that we have today. willing mobs of people clamoring for emotional appeals of a tyrannical architect insidiously giving himself more power (which he used to racially discriminate all over the place, against black people with redlining and Japanese with internment)

these fascists HATE the fact that we don't have a similar government to the UK and our government can't just wave a magic wand and do whatever it wants. our government is limited, and many of those limitations come in the forms of our individual rights. when the tyrants want their way, they legitimately lose their minds fighting against the restrictions of these rights

the worst part is that the useful idiots parroting the talking points of their overlords (who want nothing more than these ignoramuses to voluntarily give more power to the overlords to rule over them) lie about it all. they act like the destruction of our liberty is temporary and to solve a short-term problem when they know it's just the first step in a process to tear away even more

i'm not making this post to give a "gotcha"...more of a mental framing. when you see their bullshite emotional arguments and their pathetic manipulation of those who are suffering, remember why they're doing it. it's because they literally hate limits on government and want to manipulate you into giving that away. and if they can't get you to do it, they will use those around you like parasites to guilt you into giving in.