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I wouldn't argue against all of what you said, but that isn't this law. It's not fewer guns, or gun purchase restrictions, or legally owned guns or any of that. This is just a law that bans concealed carry at a few added places. Police can't search a person without cause. These aren't security restricted places places where you get checked for weapons before entering. There's literally no hindrance to go into a park with a concealed firearm aside from "its against the law". How will this stop the criminal sort from having or using a gun? Do you think a person robbing someone at gunpoint will be like "woah, I can't rob them with this in the park. That's extra illegal now"? Or that the criminal sort will stop going to a park with a gun, even though they wouldn't be able to get caught with it if they leave it concealed and don't do anything that would cause a cop to be allowed to detain and search them? The law passed doesn't really do much to make these places safer.
And here's the other argument we hear all the time. "This bill doesn't fix everything, so it's pointless and should be dropped."
Drinking in a car is illegal, but how would an officer be able to tell if there are passengers drinking behind tinted windows? If the driver has booze in his or her or their yeti, how would a cop know? Since the cop can't know, drinking in cars should be legal, even for the driver.
That's basically what you're arguing.
Sometimes a bill is stripped down in order to pass with conservatives or moderates. Sometimes a bill is a trial balloon for what you really want to pass. Sometimes a bill addresses a specific issue, and that it doesn't fix some other issue is just moot.
And sometimes you have to walk before you run.