“Our side insists that people are the problem, not guns, and to make good on that we need to come to the table with ideas on how to keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous individuals...But it is a middle ground for gun-rights supporters and gun-control activists to meet.”
If the author REALLY thinks there’s a table out there that both sides will sit down at and come to some “common sense” solution...I’d like to direct her to that bridge just up the road in Brooklyn. It’s for sale.
Remember, compromising with bad policy is like adding sewage to your drinking water. And the only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and road kill.
We have many prohibited possessors already.
The cure is not to attempt to stop them at the aquisition side, which clearly does not work; rather to enforce the prohibition of possession.
Actually dangerous, violent individuals are a very small percentage of the population.
The police need to actively monitor them and make sure they are unarmed, as is currently required by law.
We should also have a well defined method for people to have their rights restored. The prohibited possessor categories are generally too large. Most infractions are ignored.
David Kennedy has done great work on this.