You're missing the point'which is.... If there were sensible national gun laws mandating appropriate restrictions (and their enforcement) on gun availability and possession many many fewer criminals would be able to get their hands on guns.

One of our problems is that we are awash with guns in the USA. Gangs scour parking lots for guns. Straw buyers help feed gun pipelines from the south to the north. 400,000 stolen guns cross the border into Mexico every year and that doesn't dent the amount of guns in the USA. We have more guns than people in the USA.

Most of our murders and violence come from pistols. A good chunk of the pistols used in violence are stolen out of cars. So if we can make it harder to get the weapons that way, they will move to other methods to get guns, and make money. The right believes that any compromise on guns will lead to gun confiscation. Right or wrong - no compromise. But you can get them to agree to gun safety, and they aren't averse to gun safes at home and in cars, they just want instant access.

I can talk gun safes, biometric bedside safes, potential car gun safes and not get a rabid anti liberal reaction. But I talk tax credits for poor folk installing gun safes at home and in cars and liberals get upset - not right wingers.

There may be more things we can agree on, but that seems to be one area where we have potential agreement. Even my MAGA brother agrees.