If actual political office-holders were saying this, opposing office-holders should certainly respond. No need for office-holders to respond to every looney spouting nonsense on a street corner.

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/q6wUt

I’ll paraphrase what I see: “Americans have guns but are too afraid to use them.” That certainly reads to me like inciting violence.

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности), which translates to the Committee for State Security

Obvious point being: lawful gun owners do not support gun violence.

…says someone who laments gun violence while encouraging gun violence.