Oh trust me, he knows better. Don't let these people fool you into thinking that they don't. Their goal has nothing to do with "reducing gun violence" because they know that solving that problem has nothing to do with guns or citizens owning guns as a concept; it has everything to do with a long term plan to try to shut down citizen gun ownership- either through passing byzantine laws or getting shooting ranges shut down, or even generically, demonizing firearms and those who own them at every opportunity. In recent years the gun control movement has shifted towards the latter two things more than anything else, as linsky's little spiel has so many tells on it that play
this out. He knows his stupid bills won't ever pass, so he's trying to take the "antis consolation prize" of trashing gun ownership among the public.
-Mike