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All leftist governments at some point or another try and start taking away the peoples guns.
They do this because they want bigger government and basically to have more control over peoples lives. Look at Cuba, do you think the average Cuban owns a gun? You've got to be in the army. When Chretien was in power in Canada his liberal government put in gun registration to "Keep Track" of gun owners.
The governement realizes that more control often pisses certain segments of the population off and they can never make everyone happy with the policies they make. So the more left you vote the more they want to take away the peoples guns because they want more power over their citizens. Eventually, in the case of North Korea the government and military end up doing whatever they want, same with Stalin's russia. If the millions of Ukranians he starved to death had guns it might have made his life much more difficult.
You guys voted in a socialist president claiming to be moderate. So it's only natural that in due time it will be on his agenda to slowly weed out gun use. Higher restrictions, taxes, small bans etc....