The gov, led by the Clintons, sought to give us all a message. Guns will no longer be tolerated, religion will be supervised, non-PC citizens will be eradicated. There will be room only for "tolerance" of perversion, homosexuality, opening of our borders, and the sale of our once great nation to the forces of evil, corruption, and eventually communism.
Secondly, after the fact we have been informed that we average citizens have less value than those who work for the government. Where else can one obtain greater job security, better benefits while screwing your neighbors.
Thirdly, we are left to realize, on our own, that there is no shortage of individuals who are happy to do the governments dirty work, even to the point of massacring men, women, and children who represent "we the people". It would seem, in fact, that that is what some of them are most willing to do. Consider that the next time you question whether military personnel would be willing to go house to house eradicating us in the effort to protect us from our weapons.