The left knows that they need many unarmed peasants to "protect" if they want to impose their form of leftist tyranny on a country. Since this country doesn't have a high enough percentage of unarmed peasants, they are setting out to create them by disarming citizens and by impoverishing the majority of the country. Worse, I don't think that it is even a conscious plot. Instead, such behavior is instinctive for leftists.
Debate all you want. I learned better long ago. If you are about to win with facts, you will either be confronted with emotionalism, ridicule, strawmen, or red herrings. It is like trying to debate a monkey (except that comparison is an insult to monkeys everwhere).

Sauron lives and his orc minions are on the march. Free people own guns.