But these all seem like reasonable and laudable goals to me. Though the "reasonable limits on where loaded guns can be carried" seems a bit vague. Any more gloss you can add?

One program I certainly could support is gun safety/education.

conversation and the snark isn't necessary.

How about passing laws like reporting of stolen guns immediately and limiting the number of guns/month? Both make gun trafficking more difficult. If a trafficker can only buy one pistol a month it's hard to make any money hanging out in Texas for six month to buy guns for Chicago. It's also hard to tell police that you've had a dozen guns stolen in the last year without generating some suspicion.

Neither is an infraction of the 2nd Amendment. At worst they are a minor inconvenience.

Can you get behind those regulations?

...I really like the focus on gun security and straw purchases/illegal street sales. Both of these are areas in which progress can be readily made and upon which there is a pretty broad general consensus (that includes most gun owners).

Didn't get much from the regulars.

If we don't have dialogue, we're not going to get closer to the outcome most everyone wants: a reduction in gun-related violence.

Or accused you of wanting to force guns onto everyone? Or questioned your integrity? Or resorted to outright belligerence? Or flatly refused to even discuss something with you?

I was discussing the idea of honest discussion of a problem and what to do about it.

This is one of the most contentious issues in American politics and has been for years. In my experience (which I think I can legitimately say is considerable), online gun control conversations tend to get heated at the drop of a hat, and most forums that attempt them rapidly become useless. They either degenerate into pointless, infantile flame-fests, or in a moderated forum like this one or GC&RKBA, rapidly become one-sided when the minority side gets pushed out. Neither of those outcomes helps solve the problem.

What I, and some others here, hope to achieve is raising awareness of the size and scope of the issue as well as some of the possible solutions.

Simply railing against guns is pointless and counter productive. Presenting ideas and talking about how and why they might make a difference and then soliciting support for those ideas is what GCRA is about. Unfortunately that can't happen if the perpetual noise machine that is the Gungeon moves here. That's what lead to the banning of so many of the regulars who make so much noise nothing else can be heard.

It's a shame because people who know about guns should have the same goals GCRA does.

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Our SOP was crafted to encourage honest discussion and action to stem gun violence within the common Democratic framework:

Good luck on the safety / security training.

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