Most of the left wing new arrivals to congress spent their formative years in Liberal universities learning that the 2nd Amendment is part and parcel to the so called "oppression" of ethic minorities and the poor. If you shoot some SOB trying to rip you off, you are an oppressor and engaged in "white privilege". You effectively deserve to have your stuff stolen because you have more if it than the "oppressed".
The radical left , the George Soros types, have long had wet dreams about how to disarm the American public so that the Socialist/Communist economic revolution to redistribute wealth could take place. They know it can not be done as long as the public is armed and able to resist. That is why there is the constant barrage of anti-gun propaganda aimed at getting the public to turn away from guns. So far despite best efforts of leftist politicians and their allies in the media, their propaganda has served mostly to scare the hell out of thinking Americans and prod them to buy More firearms. Obummer was the firearms industry's most effective salesman to date after Bill Clinton. I do not know where all of this will eventually lead, there are now more AR-15 platform rifles in the hands of the public than in the hands of our military, if that is any comfort. Media posturing aside, the 12.5 million AR-15 platform rifles are the least likely firearm to be used in a violent crime. You are more likely to be sitting on a stump and struck by lightning that to be shot with an AR. Rant over.
Dave