Uh, if you're a "gun advocate" why would you warn anyone of that?? That sounds more like a warning that would be issued by [gun] control-freaks.
I think it is a debate tactic, but it could be half sarcasm. The gun controllers want to portray an absence of gun control laws as anarchic, so those in favor of gun rights pretend to offer up concessions, but not really, to take the mantle of “reasonableness”; which at times sounds really stupid.
This is because many voters will always support “brown”, the “mediocre vote”, because they are afraid of a strong position in anything. For example, if the Democrats came out with a call to legalize slavery, even though the Republicans would still be dead set against it, some of the mediocre fools in the public would be supportive of “the compromise”, of “some slavery”.
“Can’t we all get along?” is the clarion call of such weak individuals, who would favor everybody living in Purgatory instead of taking a strong position in favor of either Heaven or Hell.
Even the founding fathers, when considering if men were “naturally good” or “naturally bad”, reached the conclusion that most of us are “naturally weak”, so it is best if government is designed on the assumption of weakness of character, our nation is supported by those with good character, and to try and limit the power of those with bad character.