Two points on that.
1) This is just a different version of the MAGAt response of "you calling me racist just makes me more racist." It is used to avoid ANY AND ALL accountability or work on the underlying issue (racism or, in this case, the fact that we are the most firearm-violent western country by far).
2) Maybe, just MAYBE, grasp the fact that the "fuck it, I'm done, just take them all away" response is natural human exasperation (and one I've been warning about as a gun owner who would like to keep his guns for years).
Think of it this way: American gun owners are a toddler in the house with a new toy drum. They are banging on the drum when we're sleeping. Then, when we're on a work call. Then, when we're trying to have an adult conversation. We tell the toddler "look, you need to have consideration for others when you play your drum. You can play it in your room, with the door closed, or you can play it out on the porch. And you can't get up and play it after bed-time."
Instead of saying "that seems fair," and following these rules....the American gun crowd is acting like a petulant defiant toddler. Every request to accept a reasonable restriction (keep the drum playing to your room) results in the toddler proudly marching into our home office while we're on a Zoom call, banging away at the drum as loudly as he can.
And the exasperated, responsible adults in the room have had e-fucking-nough. They're turning to the toddler and saying "goddammit if you can't be responsible with that drum I'm going to take it away!"
The toddler is being a dick. The toddler would be smart to accept some reasonable limitations that make him a cooperative and decent member of our collective household. Instead, ADULT AMERICAN GUN OWNERS are acting like toddlers. And yes, we're heading to a place where the result is going to be the same: the decent, but exasperated, adults in the room are going to take your drum/gun away.
And that's it. That's it right there. Keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them at all. No, no law is perfect. Yes, some people will find a way around it. But we also KNOW that things like age limits can be effective (the Uvalde shooter TRIED to acquire an AR before he was of-age; the law stopped it. Then, he reached the legal age, and got his guns).
Seat belt laws and car safety standards haven't prevented ALL car crash deaths. But Jesus Christ, compare the rate of fatalities per million miles traveled: 1969: 5.04 deaths; 2019: 1.19.
The knee-jerk response of a majority of the "pro-gun" crowd of "enforce the laws we already have! And if you ask for anything more, you're really just trying to take away my toy drum!" is going to end up being one of the most counter-productive approaches in American history. Because the steadfast, obstinate, "fuck you people" refusal to accept ANY new limitations on firearms transfer and ownership will eventually result in the very thing they claim to fear: the rest of the house is gonna take that drum away, smash it, and toss it in the trash. And the toddler will cry, outraged.....but he'll get zero sympathy because everyone else in the house is sick of his shit.