These people have dealt in bad faith for so long it takes a special kind of stupid to take anything they say seriously.
There are laws upon laws upon laws against this sort of thing, all of them selectively enforced only against those least likely to commit such crimes. And there were at least three or four layers of institutional failure here and in every other such case.
In the end you are simply giving up freedom and gaining nothing. Again. And again. Which makes you that special kind of stupid.
I’m in favor of a conversation. I’m not a “special kind of stupid” for wanting a discussion.
FWIW, the biggest problem with what happened in Uvalde is that those who were responsible for protecting the children did EVERYTHING wrong — leaving a door open, not allowing teachers to defend themselves, not allowing the police to go in and put a stop to the killing, and so on.
In this instance, no additional legislation would have stopped the massacre.