It isn't about guns, it isn't about the Second Amendment or America, none of this is. It is about turning America into a socialist loving liberal country. In order to accomplish this they first need to demonize every single thing that makes America America. They go after capitalism with crony protests about the 99%, they go after Christianity by insisting on matrimony for whatever sexual preference you have, they go after white people by conjuring up things such as white privilege, they go after males by conjuring up things such as a fictitious pay gap, me too, and patriarchy bullshit, they go after guns because they know it stands in their way of a implementing a complete socialist Utopia. They want illegal immigrants by the millions in order to turn them into Democrat voters in an effort to water down the conservative American vote, they go after things like Confederate monuments to attack our historical fabric of our nation. They're not doing these things because they care about these things, they are doing these things to set about the perception that anyone who disagrees is a horrible person. The intent is not to change these items it is to demonize anyone who is affiliated with them or disagrees. Anyone who does not agree with their agenda are labeled things such as racist misogynist, insensitive, and intolerant. They are doing this in a methodical manner much the same way that Hitler demonized Jewish people in the decade leading up to the Holocaust. If they can achieve this demonization now, tgen later when they regain control there will be a large faction already behind their agenda.
When looking at each piece of this on its own none of it makes sense, but when you look at the sum of its parts and you see that it is basically the same individuals that are going after each piece, you begin to see that there is an agenda at play. That agenda is the complete dismantling of the American system that we all know. That agenda is the complete destruction of capitalism as we know it and implementation of a full socialized system.