I don't understand why it's hypocritical to want police reform and want guns/carry to continue to require licenses, even if those licenses must come from the police. Also, it sounds like you're describing the consequences of regulations that people want, where those regulations fail for being too blunt, but are framing it as those people wanting those consequences, which would make these apparently-many people quite evil, and of course, the easiest thing is to cast those who disagree with you on policy as evil (and to cast yourself as vilified).