The Purposes of Gun Contol.

An Internet acquaintance of mine, Chris Meissen, made the following statement. 
Look at the history of the gun laws in places like Chicago and New York.  The gun laws were not passed to protect the citizens from criminals. Rather, they were passed to protect the most politically powerful criminals from less well-connected criminals and from the citizens upon which they preyed.
That statement made me pause. A little research about one of the nations most famous anti-gun law, New York's Sullivan Act of 1910 and other long-time gun control laws reveals the common motivation driving gun control is to protect the politically active elements, whether kleptocrats or other political bodies, from the public at large.

The Sullivan Act, named after "Big Tim" Sullivan, a politician and organized crime boss of that era was enacted to remove weapons from the growing immigrant population of the city.  The purpose of the law was to allow Sullivan:

• the ability to provide arms to his body guards.
• insure his opponents guards would be unarmed
• allow the corrupt police to arrest his opponents for gun violations whether they were guilty or not.

Chicago's anti-gun laws have a similar history. Mayor Richard J. Daley spoke before US House Subcommittee in 1972 against gun violence. This coming from the leader of Chicago's famous democrat political machine. Illinois does not have a Concealed Carry provision as such---unless you are politically active. The result of gun control in Cook County and the surrounding locales is the same as that of New York's Sullivan Act; the removal of weapons from the opponents of the Chicago Machine while providing a means of members of the Machine to arm themselves.

As a former Illinois resident, I saw a number of individuals carrying concealed weapons. Since non-law enforcement persons were prohibited from carrying a weapon, the popular justification to legally carry was to be designated a reserve or auxiliary Officer or Deputy.

Gun Control has nothing to do with reducing gun violence. The purpose of Gun Control is control of political opponents by preventing them the means of enacting their opposition.