I think professional politicians really, truly believe that laws like this will have a significant impact on shootings in Compton and Oakland and other such primitive tribal settlements.
I don’t think these politicians care anything at all about shootings of the peon class (us). They only worry about their own skins when The People finally figure out what they are up to.
I doubt that they sincerely believe it will do any good. They simply hate the thought of firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens, although they have no problem with government having a monopoly on force. They’ve substituted belief in God with belief in government as the all powerful entity. They may not think of it that way, but in effect that’s what they do. I know people like that and avoid them when possible.
No, they don’t! They don’t have a problem with internecine gun-play. It’s a pivot point for supra-Constitutional control! That’s all.