Meanwhile, children just keep getting shot at school and nobody wants to do anything about it, but oh no, we can’t do anything about that because muh gun rights.

Children get abused in school and shoot some of the bullies in response, usually. Bullying is the problem, and not that most autistic children don't have non-radical ways of responding to it. And they do have right to revenge, if no other mechanism delivers justice.

It's telling how in all such cases the bullying itself is seen as almost normal, just the response. If a kid is weird enough to shoot up the bullies, then they must have been weird before, and then it's OK apparently.

But I agree that this is more important than interference with people's communications to somehow prevent bad people from communicating.

Bad people generally try to get into privileged positions btw, or undertake the needed effort to secure their activities. Most ideas of surveillance allow them to do their stuff without interference.

I think gun rights are fine. Every free human should not be robbed of right to carry arms. Especially looking at videos from that prison in Syria, 4 underground floors, people not remembering their names, children born there ... I think one can make some sacrifices to keep one of the failsafe mechanisms against that.