To be fair the "just asking questions" crowd is usually populated with a bunch of disingenuous grifting nazi, trumpers, and transphobes (massive overlap in those populations btw), so it's not uncommon to be met with immediate resistance. My only advice would be to establish clearly that you are asking in good faith (if you are), because many aren't

Meanwhule, gun fetishists ignore every shred of empirical data about the dangers and detrimental impact of firearms to propagate hero fantasies and other good guy with a gun narratives, so this is a pretty funny response by you tbh