As a responsible gun owner, we as a country need to fix this gun violence problem!

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Modding, this thread appears to have been hijacked almost immediately. The extra details in the OP seem to invite the hijack, so I’m not modnoted or warning anyone.

@Bullitt, when you return please let me know if you want this moved to either IMHO, The Pit or if I should leave this closed.

Though I’m trying to determine why the heart of your OP couldn’t just be posted in

Minmaxing gun laws

As suggested by What Exit, I’m hoping to have a focused discussion of gun laws. To wit: what policy measures could be passed that would minimize the deleterious effects on gun owners, while maximizing the protection to human life? I’m leaving the “min” side deliberately ambiguous. A policy of knocking down doors, confiscating all guns, and shooting any resistors clearly doesn’t minimize the deleterious effects, whereas one that merely adds an extra apostrophe to the background check form probab…