Apparently it’s supposed to be a monologue:
At a meeting, two firearms experts came forward to speak, bringing with them two common Ruger 10/22 rifles that had been cleared by security. The purpose of their presentation was to explain how the gun-control laws currently being proposed would outlaw only a gun’s cosmetic features while not affecting the functionality of the firearms in any measurable way in terms of rate of fire and accuracy.
In the video, DFL legislators simply arise and exit without explanation. They avoid learning details from the presentation about the very firearms they seek to legislate out of existence.
By “national conversation” they always mean “We’re going to lecture you, and you’re going to knuckle under, because shut up.”
It is like what we used to do when mad men from Iran get up to speak at the UN but now we do that with Israel.
They already know everything they need to know, i.e. guns are bad, guns kill people, if we ban guns there won’t be anymore killing.