"It is not a perfect world and the 'if only crowd's' policies will never make it one. It's that simple." Still, he also thinks that arming teachers - a popular NRA talking point - could have stopped Tuesday's massacre at Robb Elementary School. In what is sure to cause waves, he fiercely defended the right to bear arms, but added, "The 2nd amendment should not apply to everyone. While I agree with most of the positions held by the NRA, I have come to believe that, while background checks would not stop every madman with a gun, it is at the very least a step in the right direction toward trying to prevent the kind of tragedy we saw this week in Uvalde - in my beloved, weeping TEXAS." In a statement, Larry said, "I cannot, in good conscience, perform at the NRA convention in Houston this weekend. In canceling, the 74-year-old even went so far as to call out "some" of the NRA's "outdated and ill-thought-out positions regarding firearms in AMERICA." The duo shares two children, Birdie, 13, and Cricket, 8. You don't have to follow a conventional idea just because it's been done before. Because we all, at this point, have a public-facing life. "And if anything, the last several years has shown me it's a little bit that, like, you can only do what's right for you and your family, whether or not you have a public-facing life or you just post on Facebook or whatever. "There's, like, a conventional idea of what a person in the public eye is supposed to do when their relationship ends, and it's been very well-established, right? Like, you make a statement, you're 'committed to remaining friends,' 'please respect our privacy and our family's privacy in this time,' right? But the truth is, like, who made that rule up, that that's how you do it? I'm serious," she said. The idea of issuing a statement, she said, "made us sick, both of us, truly ill." The "Dawson's Creek" alum and Marc decided against issuing a statement a year ago about the split. "And we really discussed, like, how do I handle it sort of publicly? Because when we first separated, it was, like, February of last year." "It's been a really long time that Marc and I have been separated, and our kids know, our families know, our friends know," she said.