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The part about taking guns from the police isn't part of the liberal plan, but you are on to something here. Ban all guns from a test area (like has been the case in NYC), confiscate those that upstanding citizens possess, make the penalties for violation very stiff, and then see what happens. Of course liberals would have the excuse that guns are coming in from outside, so to prevent that, we would have to have security searches for anyone entering the test area. Where can we do that easily?

Manhattan, being an island, might do the trick. Bloomberg already has tried it, but can't get the control he needs to implement his gun ban fully. Let him do it. Then let's see what happens.

But keep in mind when you make these proposals that the point of the second amendment is not just self defense from armed criminals, or for hunting. That would let the liberals set the premise. The purpose of the second amendment is to keep us free, to protect us from those who would make themselves tyrants. The drive for gun "control" is for the hidden purpose of ensuring that the statists will not face resistance from that remnant population of free people when they impose their tyranny on all of us. That has nothing to do with gun violence by criminals and crazy people.

You’re right. The 2nd Amendment doesn’t protect us from a tyrannical government by saying we can have weapons of a certain type. It protects us by saying what the government is not allowed to do - it is not allowed to infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms. As long as we maintain and protect that right, we’ve won. We don’t need an armed confrontation with the government. If we surrender that right, then we’ve lost, we’ve submitted to tyranny.

Bloomberg already has tried it, but can't get the control he needs to implement his gun ban fully

Yeah, Bloomie got distracted by other pressing issues. Guns don't kill people, 17-ounce Big Gulps do.

The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the people from being subjugated by a “standing army.” The Founders were not fond of the army the British had put in place to rule the colonies.

Tenche Cox, Pennsylvanian delegate to the
Continental Congress tells us:

“The militia of these free commonwealths,
entitled and accustomed to their arms,
when compared with any possible army,
must be tremendous and irresistible.
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves?
Is it feared, then, that we shall turn
our arms each man against his own bosom.
Congress have no power to disarm
the militia.

Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American …

the unlimited power of the sword is not in
the hands of either the federal or state governments,
but, where I trust in God
it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”