"This would mean gun safes or locking brackets out of sight in cars too... We should give tax credits, etc.

Why? We don't give tax credits for seat belts, air bags, or swimming pool fencing?

I understand where you are coming from, but...

This is going to take cooperation at both the State and Federal level to get done effectively. If we require gunsafes in the home and cars if you have weapons we are going to face stiff opposition, and if we, as liberals (or whatever), continue to object and call people morons, we might as well not even start. It's easy to get conservatives to rule that this is placing an undue burden on the individual right to keep and bear arms - that's a no brainer. And I might point out that driving is NOT a basic right., nor are swimming pools. Travel is, but not driving.

Politically, we want the least amount of fighting - give no targets, make the other side work. We can raise a small tax on mfrs., and do some taxing later - but let's not give any targets in the beginning, and give some incentives. So we have to ask ourselves - do we want to get somewhere or not.